Anti-state, pro-market and the world will make sense!

Being an anti-state, pro-market believer is a beautiful thing indeed. I'm not a "believer" in the sense that I accept religious sense philosophy - I didn't just read a book by some clever man who wrote a whole lot of "I think the State should.." or "I feel we should do this and that..", but a believer in the sense that I accept the existence of logic and reason (man), and hence the preachings of men like Ludwing von Mises, Murray N. Rothbard, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Walter Block and the like. In other words: The message of the Mises Institute and the likes (for most part).

What is the anti-state, pro-market attitude? It is a one of reason and logic, that of acknowledging the self-ownership of individuals and hence their private property rigths, automatically meaning the denial of "public" ownership over individuals and their property.

How does this attitude simplify the world? First of all, it divides men into two types: Anti-state (anarcho-capitalist libertarians) and Statists (pro-State libertarians, anti-State socialists, and everything in between). A great majority of people fill the second group, and they waste their time discussing the pros and cons of different State-actions (wars, welfare-subsidies, taxation and so on). The exception is perhaps the anarchist Socialist, who does not approve of the State-apparatus, but denies human logic and reason. All others are stuck in a huge confusion of self-contradicting endless discussions about the acceptable role of the State.

What Statists fail to see that if a State is created, and it is allowed to perform actions while banning others from the same actions (taxation, monopoly of law-enforcement and dispute-solving), they have given up their self-ownership and private property rights. If you accept "some" loss of self-ownership, you have created a monster that will, if it can, swallow up the rest of it. Constraints are made on the State in most places (constitutions being the most popular one), but even though you chain down the dragon, the risk always exists that it will find the key to the lock or break free from it, and eventually fly over your village and burn it down.

Anti-state, pro-market attitude is a beautiful thing. Of course it creates a lot of irritation in a world of Statists, but contradictions and confusion is eliminated.