Anarchy and Legal Order Law and Politics for a Stateless Society [Paperback]

This book elaborates and defends law without the state. It explains why the state is illegitimate, dangerous and unnecessary.This book elaborates and defends the idea of law without the state. Animated by a vision of peaceful, voluntary cooperation as a social ideal and building on a careful account of non-aggression, it features a clear explanation of why the state is illegitimate, dangerous, and unnecessary.This book elaborates and defends the idea of law without the state. Animated by a vision of peaceful, voluntary cooperation as a social ideal and building on a careful account of non-aggression, it features a clear explanation of why the state is illegitimate, dangerous, and unnecessary.This book elaborates and defends the idea of law without the state. Animated by a vision of peaceful, voluntary cooperation as a social ideal and building on a careful account of non-aggression, it features a clear explanation of why the state is illegitimate, dangerous, and unnecessary. It proposes an understanding of how law enforcement in a stateless society could be legitimate and what the optimal substance of law without the state might be, suggests ways in which a stateless legal order could foster the growth of a culture of freedom, and situates the project it elaborates in relation to leftist, anti-capitalist, and socialist traditions.1. Laying foundations; 2. Rejecting aggression; 3. Safeguarding cooperation; 4. Enforcing law; 5. Rectifying injury; 6. Liberating society; 7. Situating liberation. Anarchisms case, against the state and for the viability and desirability of a polycentric legal order, receives its most challenging and detailed articulation in Chartiers book.
Hillel Steiner, FBA
Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Manchester Those who defend the legitimacy of the state (even a minimal one) will be forced to reconsider their views by Gary Chartiers clear, sparkling, and trenchant defense of anarchism. This is required reading, nolSR