I don’t particularly enjoy writing long-reads (which isn’t very smart of me, as they are how I make more money). Therefore, I am always glad when someone creates a detailed text that I mostly agree with, thereby saving me a great deal of effort.

After Hoppe’s lecture in Moscow (I’m waiting for the recording to appear so I can formulate my own opinion on it), a discussion began among the authors of several medium-sized channels and public pages, which seemed quite fruitless to me: arguments over terminology, personal attacks, distortions—what could be more vulgar? But I was wrong. A stupid argument, the course of which I won’t even summarize here, prompted Ved Neuman, the author of my favorite channel Antistate, to put together an excellent programmatic article.

The article clearly explains that ancap is not reduced to Rothbard-Hoppe-Svetov and the construction of a society based on the absolutization of the non-aggression principle, and that economic theory is not reduced to the classical Austrian School of Mises’ time. It provides a professional lead-in to panarchism and explains quite reasonably why this is a promising direction for real work.

I hope that in a couple of weeks, once the online flame war that gave birth to this article loses its relevance, the author will rewrite it, removing the polemical specifics and changing the title while keeping the conceptual content; then it will be truly great. But the article is definitely worth reading already now.