Why should we reject the “anarcho”-capitalist definitions of freedom and justice?
Simply because they lead to the creation of authoritarian social relationships and so to restrictions on liberty. A political theory which, when consistently followed, has evil or iniquitous consequences, is a bad theory. For example, any theory that can justify slavery is obviously a bad theory – slavery does not cease to stink the moment it is seen to follow your theory. As right-Libertarians can justify slave contracts as a type of wage labour (see section 2.6) as well as numerous other authoritarian social relationships, it is obviously a bad theory. It is worth quoting Noam Chomsky at length on this subject: “Consider, for example, the ‘entitlement theory of justice’. . . [a]ccording to this theory, a person has a right to whatever he has acquired by means that are just. If, by luck or labour or ingenuity, a person acquires such and such, then he is entitled to keep it and dispose of it as he wills, and a just society will not infringe on this right. “One can easily determine wher
