Jul
02
2021
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Governance in Pirate Societies
By thecollective
from Center for a Stateless Society
How Cost-Benefit Considerations Produced “Progressive” Governance in Pirate Societies
by Emile Phaneuf
Without economics, Leeson writes, pirates are “sadistic pacifists; womanizing homosexuals; treasure-lusting socialists; and madmen who outwitted the authorities. They’re stealthy outlaws who loudly announced their presence with flags of skulls and bones. They’re libertarians who conscripted nearly all their members, democrats with dictatorial captains, and lawless anarchists who lived by a strict code of rules. They’re torturous terrorists who command honest men’s adoration.”