Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihlpg!tan From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: (micromotives & macrobehavior) Message-ID: <1260@ihlpg.UUCP> Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 18:08:48 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpg.1260 Posted: Mon Sep 16 18:08:48 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 06:15:22 EDT References: <535@brl-tgr.ARPA> <987@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 30 > >>[Mike Huybensz] > >>Like Vietnam? In any event, you are comparing struggles between political > >>systems, rather than a struggle between a political and an apolitical system. > >>I repeat: how would the market provide defense against a competing political > >>power? ----- > >[Rick McGeer] > >In VietNam we gave up because we didn't have the will to continue the struggle. > >The peoples of the Mekong are still suffering for our refusal to do so. > > ------ >[Sarima (Stanley Friesen] > You still have not answered the original question, how would a > free market be *able* to respond to an organized military attack by a > statist neighbor? Think about it, a large, rich area with *no* central > government, *no* organized, systematic defense facilities, just a > series of seperate militias and privately owned armies(sort of like > Lebanon). Now here comes a large army pouring over the borders from > next door. Just what market forces are going to recruit, train, equip, > and organize an effective resistance force before the country is > essentiallty completely overrun? Under these cicumstances it is > *preparedness*, not size and wealth that determine victory. This is > the question that Mike is trying to get you to answer. > -- Remember the funniest movie ever made, Duck Soup (Marx Bros.)? When Fredonia was disintegrating under Sylvanian attack, Harpo put on a help wanted sign and went combing the coutryside for volunteers. Harpo must have been an early Libertarian.-) -- Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL ihnp4!ihlpg!tan