Introduction to Hoppe's main work

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

but these are all states? absolute monarchies with a few liberal democracies.

Oh, no. No liberal democracies. All there are in this utopia are a group of feudal kingdoms ruled by a combination of corporate control and local "elites"; a term that Hoppe leave deliberately ambiguous. So what you have is a division of any county within the US into about 500 little feudal kingdoms, each headed by a local warlord. The difference between this and Europe of the 8th century is that Hoppe mixes in a sort of corporate fascism, where privatized corporations compete with each other for control of local law, enforcement, militarization, and all other elements of society formerly domain of the government. This order is ensured through the removal of any element of society that does not agree, consent or is considered non-productive, such as proponenets of other economic or political theories and homosexuals. Hoppe leaves how they are to be dealt with an ambiguous matter as well, but it is pretty easy to figure out what he means.

If it all sounds like madness it is only because it is madness.