[80152] in Cypherpunks
Anarchy Books
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Thu May 15 13:48:08 1997
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Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 08:56:01 -0700
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 2:22 PM -0700 5/14/97, Tim May wrote:
>The meaning of anarchy, and how it differs from chaos and random killings,
>has been discussed many times. David Friedman's "The Machinery of Freedom"
>is a good book to start with. Bruce Benson's "The Enterprise of Law" also
>discusses how lawlessness is not at all a necessary part of "no rulers"
For anarchy in a fictional setting I recommend two books by Ursula K.
LeGuin. "The Dispossessed" and "Always Coming Home".
In a lecture several years ago in San Francisco, she said of the two books
that in "The Dispossessed" I set out to describe an anarchy. In "Always
Coming Home" I just let it happen.
BTW - When I read "Always Coming Home", I was over half-way thru the book
before I had any idea of what it was about. Be prepared for a long period
of confusion as to why you are reading it.
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