How might an anarcho-capitalist society be achieved?
There is no consensus among anarcho-capitalists how a free society might be achieved. Everyone agrees that educating other people is useful. Beyond that, there are many strategies. There are Gulchers (named after the fictional “Galt’s Gulch” in Ayn Rand’s book “Atlas Shrugged”) such as the Laissez Faire City bunch, who see little or no chance in changing an entrenched welfare-warfare State. These “retreatists” propose to set up isolated communities away from statist authority. PTs (permanent tourists, perpetual travelers, prior tax-payers) try to maintain tourist status in all States they traverse, paying no taxes and keeping wealth effectively beyond the reach of grasping States. A sophisticated PT uses the “four flag” strategy: he’ll use a passport from a different State than the one which claims him as subject, keep his wealth in a third State, and, when not traveling, reside in a fourth State. At the other extreme, some anarcho-capitalists are active in electoral politics despite t
