/r/Minarchy

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A subreddit for Minarchists everywhere.

Minarchism is a libertarian political philosophy which advocates for the State to exist solely to protect citizens from aggression, theft, breach of contract, and fraud. Minarchists generally propose that the only legitimate governmental institutions are the military, police, and courts. However, some advocates propose fire departments, prisons, the executive, and legislatures as legitimate government functions.

Minarchists argue that it is malum in se for a government to interfere in transactions between people by taxing for services not directly related to the protection of citizens.

Some minarchists argue that a state is inevitable, thus believing anarchy to be futile. Minarchists justify the necessity of the state on the grounds that private defence agencies and courts could be biased by unevenly representing the interests of higher paying clients.

Minarchists believe a laissez-faire economy is not only the best system ethically, but also pragmatically. They contend that exceedingly low tax rates as a result of minimal government institutions allows for economic benefits.


Some rules we have in /r/Minarchy

  • Please don't downvote comments. Especially because you disagree with a comment. No one should be shut out of a conversation because you disagree with them.

  • Participate and submit valuable content Please take some time to submit things that foster discussion on libertarian topics.

  • Report off topic spam only, not trolling, or content or comments you disagree with.

  • Do not report posts that you do not like. We will not remove it unless it is spam.

  • Keep it reasonably civil, avoid personal attacks.

  • Follow all general reddit rules, such as DO NOT post personal information of any user.


We have a Minarchy Discord ----> https://discord.gg/QMPjmh


Other subreddits of interest:


Important Libertarian and Minarchist Thinkers:

  • Ron Paul

  • Rand Paul

  • Gary Johnson

  • Milton Friedman

  • John Locke

  • Robert Nozick

  • Ayn Rand

  • Murray Rothbard

  • Friedrich Hayek

  • Franz Oppenheimer

  • Frédéric Bastiat


Good Libertarian and Minarchist Books:

  • The Libertarian Mind by David Boaz

  • The Law by Frédéric Bastiat

  • The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism by David Friedman

  • Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman

  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

  • Anarchy, State & Utopia by Robert Nozick

/r/Minarchy

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Is intellectual property compatible with capitalism and minarchism?

I would really like to know this, because properties exist because things are limited, right?

Since ideas are not limited, is intellectual property compatible with minarchy?

6 Comments
2024/10/25
20:06 UTC

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Kamalanomics is GARBAGE (Kamala Harris Response)

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2024/10/20
05:29 UTC

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Non austrian evonomists againts anti trust

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2024/09/26
20:35 UTC

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Checkmating Kyle Kulinski weird love for Kamala Harris weird economics

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2024/09/22
13:04 UTC

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"Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito"

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2024/09/18
14:53 UTC

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Minarchist and Right Wing Anarchist Discord (MRWAWF)

I decided to make a discord for all Minarchists and Right-Wing anarchists to be on. The MRWAWF (Minarchist and Right-Wing Anarchist World Forum) is here so ancaps, minarchists, and all those other right wing anarchist groups that I care less about can talk. Here is the link: https://discord.gg/26nMn5ZqyZ

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2024/09/15
16:17 UTC

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How Government is Destroying Healthcare (Milton Friedman)

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2024/09/13
16:33 UTC

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Muh Corporate Greed (Kamala Harris response) (ft. The Political Checkmate)

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2024/09/01
05:47 UTC

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What do you object to regarding the natural law-based conception of law? Anarchy works.

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2024/08/29
18:35 UTC

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If Texas voted to secede after a majority plebcite, would you send in the tanks to crush the session?

If not, then how can you object to each county and individual seceding?

12 Comments
2024/08/29
12:57 UTC

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Does this cause inflation?

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2024/08/15
19:14 UTC

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Minarchist YouTube shorts I'm making

I haven't posted a short in a while...I hope to keep YouTube uploads more consistent going forward! At least no big gaps...Anyway, here's a new short I posted today:

https://youtube.com/shorts/H7FScx7L2Po?si=3bjfNzOKf4yg2iQn

1 Comment
2024/08/15
00:13 UTC

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Socialist tiktoker wants you to STEAL (Rathbone response)

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2024/07/28
06:22 UTC

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Mises monopoly price theory nd criticism?

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2024/07/24
09:33 UTC

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Education under Minarchy

How would the educational system work under minarchy? Having a public institution responsible for the education of the people or laws on how privately owned schools should teach would give the government alot of responsibilities and power and could be considered not to be fully minarchist however having private institutions providing education could result in the risk of people's ideas getting manipulated from a very young age and result in brainwashing which could go against the freedom of choice / meritocratic and libertarian side of minarchy. I Would love to get some insight on this dilemma than I have been struck upon with.

Bonus question: how would the low but still required funding to the government be provided. Donations from the population ? Government index fund ? Personally I suggest high heritage tax rates and nothing else to really go full meritocratic so no more daddy's money.

8 Comments
2024/07/09
02:53 UTC

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Creating daily youtube shorts from libertarian/minarchist perspective

Hello everyone, I'm going to start doing one Youtube short a day from a libertarian/minarchist position. Any feedback, ideas, help etc. is appreciated. My first short is below. Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YxIgoWY9l0o

14 Comments
2024/06/24
01:01 UTC

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Debunking the Green Party's Wealth Tax (UK) | Wealth, Green Party, conse...

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2024/06/23
06:34 UTC

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Every Man a Philosopher-King

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2024/06/06
12:59 UTC

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Jacob Hornberger for President, 2024! My message to Libertarian National Convention delegates

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2024/05/24
03:33 UTC

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My One-Party System

For both Federal and State HOR is elected by the people while the Senate is appointed by smaller legislators (County Legislators for State, State Legislators for Federal).

All Goverment Officials (County, State, and Federal) must be members of the Party (Libertarians).

With the Consent of the people within the community, Covenant Communinties can be run however they wish as long as they don't expand beyond their jurisdiction, and don't coerse Individuals into staying in their community.

16 Comments
2024/05/20
17:49 UTC

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Where do the homeless stay?

So in minarchy, as we all know, the government is so small that I'm not even sure if homelessness is even considered. Of course in Libertarianism, people have private property and the is maximized to the extent possible under a minarchy framework. My question is, where do the homeless go?

Suppose there are no churches to take them in, no shelters or they are extremely full. Where should he go? Anywhere he goes is a quote "violation of private property", so what should be done? He is still human (and I mean that from a biological point not a moral one), and requires sleep, so he has to lay his head somewhere. If he has no where to go and he is "violating private property" everywhere he goes, then that means by default, homelessness is a crime. You see what I mean? So under a minarchy scheme of government is there some place for the homeless to go if there are no shelters?

16 Comments
2024/05/16
21:22 UTC

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How do I invest in Javier Milei?

What's the best way to ride the wave up that Milei is creating in Argentina? I'm not a man of vast means, but I've got some to play with and if there's ever someplace I can put my money where my mouth is, it's with Milei.

3 Comments
2024/05/14
18:30 UTC

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Human Life & Property: A False Dichotomy | Nathan J Robinson, Socialism, Riots, Protests, Defence

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2024/05/12
06:31 UTC

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A 3rd world ( especially INDIA) perspective on minarchism

I WROTE THIS POST TO KNOW HOW MINARCHISM ACCEPTS THESE ISSUES THAT 3RD WORLD COUNTRIES MOSTLY FACE EVEN THOUGH THE NUMBERS ARE FROM INDIA THE MOST DENSELY POPULATED COUNTRY OF THE WORLD . I REQUEST THE MEMBERS TO GIVE PRACTICAL AND STEP WISE SOLUTIONS IF POSSIBLE OR ATLEAST A CLEAR INSIGHT THAT MINARCHISM GIVES ON HOW TO DEAL WITH THESE ISSUES. PLEASE DON'T RANT ABOUT THIS ISSUES BY JUST SAYING TERMS AND CALLING THEM AS SOLUTIONS. GIVE SOLUTIONS TO THESE ISSUES TO A NON MINARCHIST:-

1:- unions and corporatives :- in India we have huge business like tata and Mahindra that people love, respect and are loyal too for playing a huge role in shaping morden India and employing many people but we have crony capitalists too like Ambani and Adani who have exploited workers and natural resources!!! We have Cooperatives like Amul who made India a milk producing country from a milk deficient country while also looking after farmers, Mumbai dabbawala a 127 year old coorporative that plays a crucial role in Mumbai tiffin service and have a huge workforce that is like a family and not a business venture environment where any person is thrown out simply if he is a liability and emotions are attached to such coorporatives and people are proud of it and even the government advocates and help these coorporatives too in increasing their working areas to this major landmass as they are also profit generating coorporatives!!!! We have unions like AITUC, BMS, INTUC, UTUC, CITU, H.M.S . they have played a crucial role against crony capitalism, workers exploitation and rights and better working conditions for workers. They are present in India since the time of colonialism and are still relevant, play a crucial role and lakhs of people are in these unions!!! We have syndicates like warna and many tribal associations that have their own product and control means of production. Even the government is proposing the idea of a product for each district that the local people manage. PSUs handling national resources and other things. Government has made laws to prevent workers exploitation and wage allocation which are necessary for some companies. I GAVE ABOVE EXAMPLES JUST TO TELL THE IMPORTANCE OF UNIONS AND ALSO MIXED ECONOMY IN THESE COUNTRIES WHILE I HAVE SEEN MINARCHISTS BEING OPPOSED TO UNIONS AND SYNDICATES AND GOVERNMENT LAWS FOR MARKET.

2:- WELFARE PROGRAMS AND TAXATION ON IT:- I HAVE SEEN MINARCHISTS SAYING MINIMAL TAXES AND ADVOCATING THAT SUCH PROGRAMS SHOULD BE DONE BY PRIVATE COMPANIES. In India more than 800 million people live on free ration/ food from government, old people and women get subsidised transport, people get subsidised electricity, we have free education or at very low cost in government education institutions ( private institutions have 100 times more fees but still service is not much better) , free government healthcare and free prescribed medicines from government hospital ( while capitalist countries like USA healthcare is very much expensive with expensive medicines while those same medicines patent are given to Indian pharma companies that make the same quality medicine at cheaper price for example take Novartis pharmaceuticals case) . More than 100 million people use government healthcare and schools ( take the major example of government hospitals and medical College like AIIMS, kgmu etc with total fees of 1200$ and compare it's services and facilities to private colleges with total fees no less than 100000$ and low services) . Around 17 million people are working on government pension not payed by taxes but by those people own salary share ,4 million people employed in government workforce, employment schemes like MGNREGA give 154 million people employment or wages under them, MSP by government to farmers and many more. I am saying this because it is all done by taxation on people who can pay taxes and tax rates are normally 30% and in some cases till 35% but people are getting these services for them. HOW WOULD A MINARCHIST AGAINST TAXATION AND INVOLVEMENT OF STATE IN WELFARE PROGRAMS WOULD CONVINCE A NORMAL PERSON DEPENDENT ON THESE PROGRAMS ABOUT MINARCHISM AND HOW WOULD THEY REPLACE THE WELFARE PROGRAMS WITH. I HAVE SEEN MINARCHISTS AGREEING TO PAY 10 TIMES MORE TO SOME PRIVATE COMPANIES THAN PAYING A MINIMUM AMOUNT TO TAXES. THEY CALL STATE BAD SIMILARLY ONE COULD CALL THE COMPANIES BAD!!!

4 Comments
2024/04/17
10:23 UTC

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Can a minarchy have state-funded employment and aid programs to help the unemployed and the disabled?

5 Comments
2024/04/14
08:48 UTC

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