Introduction to Hoppe's main work

[u crank]

Originally Posted by Skybird

The need to go back to small regions with administrative autonomy. the superiority of a feudal system once the scale of a community is beyond a certain size limit.

... basic democracy in minimum-size local communities, feudal structures on supra-communal levels.

We must promote the idea of secession. Or more specifically, we must promote the idea of a world composed of tens of thousands of distinct districts, regions, and cantons, and hundred of thousands of independent free cities such as the present day oddities of Monaco, Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Greatly increased opportunities for economically motivated migration would thus result, and the world would be one of small [classically] liberal governments economically integrated through free trade and an international commodity money such as gold.

Given humankind's penchant for greed, elitism, and dominance of others it is hard to see how a system like this would work. Human traits and history show that when there is conflict, and there will be, these city states will join together in like minded groups to accomplish their goals. Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. This utopian model would only work with a radical shift in human nature.

I'm not entirely disagreeing with Hoppe's analysis of the problem. It's his solution that makes me shudder.

From Democracy: The God That Failed.

There can be no tolerance toward democrats and communists in a libertarian social order. They will have to be physically separated and expelled from society. Likewise, in a covenant founded for the purpose of protecting family and kin, there can be no tolerance toward those habitually promoting lifestyles incompatible with this goal. They--the advocates of alternative, non-family and kin-centred lifestyles such as, for instance, individual hedonism, parasitism, nature-environment worship, homosexuality, or communism--will have to be physically removed from society, too, if one is to maintain a libertarian order.