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Paul, "Anarchism and Natural Rights" (Paper Presented at
the Associat ion for the Philosophic Study of Society,
October 6, 1977).
(62)David Friedman is one of the few individualist
anarchists to recognize the distinction between libertar
ian ism and a narchism, and he ext ricates hims elf from
this possible dilemma by refusing to classify himself as
ali b e r tar ian • See his The Machi n e r y 0 f Preedom (New
York: Harper and Row, 1913),pp. 173-78.
(63)John Hospers, "What Libertarianism Is," The
Libertarian Alternative, ed. Tibor Machan (Chicago:
Ne I son- Ha 11, 1974), p. 13.
( 6 4 ) I b i·d ., P p. 7 - 8.; a n· d H 0 S per s ,
Libertarianism, pp. 61-62.
(65)Hospers, Libertarianism, p. 386-87.
(66)John Hospers, "Rothbard's Free-Market Justice,"
p. 21. (67)Ibid.
(68)Hospers, Libertarianism, p. 387.
( 69 ) H0 s per s, " Rot h bard's F r e e -Ma r ke t Jus tice ," p.
21.
(70)See, for example, Max Weber, Law in Economy
and Soc i e t y, e d. Ma x Rh e ins t e i n ( New Yo r k: S im0 nand
Schuster, 1954), pp. 338-39.
(71)lt would certainly be stretching the point to
maintain that the fee would be voluntary since consumers
could forego purchasing protection altogether, and those
providing protection could enter a new line of work, if
either objected to the fee. This is tantamount to arguing
that the obligation to pay income tax is "voluntarily"
assumed when the individual "chooses" to earn a
living.
(72)Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia (New
York: Basic Books, 1974), pp. 15-26.
( 73) Ibid., pp. 110-13.
( 74) I bid., pp. 33-5 •
(75)Ibid., p. 156.
(76')See ibid., pp. 22-25.
( 77 ) I bid., p • 109 • ( em phas isin 0 rig ina 1 ) •
(7S)See John Sanders, "The Free Market Model Versus
Government: A Reply to Nozick," The Journal of
. Libertarian Studies (Winter 1977), pp.' 35-44.
(79)Nozick, p. liS.
(SO)Roy Childs, "The Invisible Hand Strikes Back,"
The Journal of Libertarian Studies (Winter 1977), pp.
23-33. ( 8 1 ) Her b e r t S pen c e r, Soc i a 1Sta ties ( New Yo r k: D.
Appleton, 1892), p. 125.
(82)Herbert Spencer, The Right to Ignorelhe
State (Cupertino, Cal.: Caymen Press, 1973), p. 5.
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