On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <[email protected]> wrote:
It seems that governments are legal entities, similar to corporations. hence it may be worth to check the constitutionality of setting up another government, with support of the hundred thousand and more people converging in Wisconsin, to legitimize the alternative government.
I think you have in mind something like de Ugarte's phyles or Robb's "economy as a software service." If so, the main problem is that existing governments serve the primary purpose of preventing the very kinds of things an alternative government would be created to achieve. An alternative economy -- as I understand its benefits -- would be created to enable producers to engage in exchange with one another without paying tribute to the money monopoly, to distribute digital information in defiance of "intellectual property" laws, to bypass the corporate state and the taxation apparatus that subsidizes it, etc. The idea is for an economy, operating under cover of a darknet with encrypted transactions, to circumvent all the regulations whose primary intent is to enforce artificial scarcities and entry barriers, so that we don't have to pay rent to the holders of special privileges and immunities granted by the state. So much of what the alt economy would do would be in direct contravention of the laws of the existing state. Local communities are incorporated, but they are viewed as being incorporated *under* the constitution and laws of sovereign states. -- Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society http://c4ss.org Mutualist Blog: Free Market Anti-Capitalism http://mutualist.blogspot.com The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html