In this episode of Fascinating! Rik from Planet Vulcan discusses the substance and the history of modern anarchist thinking, from its beginnings in the nineteenth century where opposition to the state was combined with opposition to capitalism, to twentieth century developments in anarchist thinking, where opposition to the legitimacy of the state is combined with free-market capitalism in Anarcho-Capitalism. Early thinkers never successfully engaged with the unavoidable problem of scarcity, as anarcho-capitalists have done. Anarcho-capitalists have fixed one flaw, but are there others? Is it truly workable?
