Immigration debates are a good test case for why real libertarianism requires anti-statism. We have people calling themselves libertarians out here who view governments as the rightful property owners of whole nations & consequently don't see freedom of movement as negative right
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However principled ancaps get stuck in the familiar traps of vulgar libertarianism when they commit to propertarian fundamentalism. Putting individual autonomy first makes it clear that property is a tool serving autonomy, and where there are conflicts autonomy should come first
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Examples of property conflicting with autonomy include for example someone buying the plots of land and roads surrounding your home and then enforcing an anti-trespassing policy. Clearly there's no getting around the need to cooperatively uphold commons if we value real liberty.
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Trying to strangle someone economically is an act of war, and property rights are a tool for making peace. If the surrounding is peaceful, the two parties will find agreeable accommodations. If it's hostile, guns will speak. In between the two, there's the Berlin air lift.
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As usual, centralization of power, far from resolving those issues, only take them to a larger scale, with war on the scale of millions of victims. Witness once again the Berlin air lift and the "cold" war.
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More importantly, statist centralization makes the warlords unaccountable for their crimes, when they would have to personally pay the full price of war in a propertarian setting.
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