“Everyone, at least sometimes, is an anarchist. Consider Cambodia in the late 1970s. The Khmer Rouge government intentionally killed more than two million of its own citizens. That’s an average of 8 percent of the population killed each year while government simultaneously inflicted countless other horrors. Do you think the Cambodian people, faced with that government, would have been better off with no government at all? Congratulations. You are, sometimes, an anarchist. The real issue is found in an area economists call ‘comparative institutions.’ That is, in a specific time and place, how well would anarchy work compared to an actual obtainable state?”
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=3587
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