(np) approaching anarchism from the right

[Michael Bailey]

http://www.sobran.com/reluctant.shtml

interesting to note, this Joseph Sobran evolved from a William Buckley
paleoconservative (who was fired from the National Review for treading
a little too closely to being obviously anti-semitic),

into a Murray Rothbard/Hans Hoppe anarchist (ie, complete disavowal of
State power's legitimacy)

it's ever so clear to those of us (like me) who approach anarchism
from the left, and have more sympathy for the losers in an unfettered
free market (whose loss is likely to be more complete and tragic),
than for the partial losses of sovereignty required of everybody in a
society that has some regulation - the freedom to burn tires in a
residential neighborhood or pollute a river till it can catch on fire,
sell fake securities to widows and orphans, shit like that....

...that his program is fatally flawed and would breed nightmares like
private armies, and that his gleeful dismissal of government
regulatory power throws out the baby with the bathwater...

...that the people who pay for his think tanks are guys like the Koch
brothers who want to undercut protections against their own predations
but continue to lock in their own relative advantages; that
privatization doesn't mean the government goes away, but that it
continues to exist, tax, and pay for the "privatized" goods and
services, but sets up a new payee who (as far as I can see) actually
subtracts value by absorbing funds and cutting benefits...

What makes it interesting is to read how someone drawn to the same
Thoreauvian notion as I, "that government is best which governs least"
can build on that foundation a program so repellent!

Anyway, Sobran just died (RIP) and I commend him to his Catholic God.