En el excelente blog de la Sociedad Libertaria del Sur (liberales argentinos)

Esto es para los participantes de la Red Liberal que no optan por no buscar el ideal ancap si no que niegan a) su existencia histórica, b) su ejecutabilidad. Ni siquiera Milton Friedman, que dista de ser uno de los íconos ancap, niega ambos puntos. Y coincido en que -sobre todo en el contexto cultural actual- sería inestable (o perecedero). Pero de conceder eso como hago yo y en sus propias palabras hace Milton (no David) Friedman, a negar todo el asunto hay una gran distancia. La distancia entre una mente incisiva y una obtusa. Ah y un saludo cordial a Iracundo, pasando de coles a nabos.

Reason: I see you occasionally use the word libertarian.

Friedman: Oh, I do.

Reason: As a concession to accepted usage?

Friedman: That’s right. Because now liberal is so misinterpreted. So I am a Republican with a capital “r” and a libertarian with a small “l.” I have a party membership as a Republican, not because they have any principles, but because that’s the way I am the most useful and have most influence. My philosophy is clearly libertarian.

However, libertarian is not a self-defining term. There are many varieties of libertarians. There’s a zero-government libertarian, an anarchist. There’s a limited-government libertarianism. They share a lot in terms of their fundamental values. If you trace them to their ultimate roots, they are different. It doesn’t matter in practice, because we both want to work in the same direction.

I would like to be a zero-government libertarian.

Reason: Why aren’t you?

Friedman: Because I don’t think it’s a feasible social structure. I look over history, and outside of perhaps Iceland, where else can you find any historical examples of that kind of a system developing?

Reason: One could argue the same thing about minimal-state libertarianism: that historically it seems to not be stable.

Friedman: I agree. I wrote an article once arguing that a free society is an unstable equilibrium. Fundamentally, I’m of the opinion that it is. Though we want to try to keep that unstable equilibrium as long as we can! The United States from 1780 to 1929 is not a bad example of a limited-government libertarianism that lasted for a long time.

Ver toda la entrevista.