When I was an Objectivist, I had an ambivalent relationship with anarchy. When reading Rand I was never comfortable with the idea of a government, especially when John Galt himself said, “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will not live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” I didn’t see a reason why any man or group of men should have power over anyone else. However, when I thought of anarchy I thought of gang warfare, no better than the way our governments work now. Then I thought of my own life, and thought about the lack of unchosen relationships, the lack of violence, the lack of any sort of real control in my own life and wondered why that couldn’t work on a world-wide scale.

I ask you to at least read the first chapter, and if you like what you read, keep going! It’s free and short, so there are no excuses!

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Let me know what you think! And thank you Stefan Molyneux for releasing this book for free.