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Yeah, american libertarians call themselves the wrong thing. The more correct term I find would be anarcho-capitalist, which is just all around a completely non-viable economic and governance system.
Anarcho-capitalism is actually perfectly viable for a "functional" society. Goods will be made, and the people will be fed in accordance with the wishes of the ruling class.
It's just not anarchism, and it's not good. It's just the capitalist class fully assuming the powers of state and production with none of the responsibilities to the people or any of those pesky human rights.
So, you know. Corporate Fascism.
But it would work. It has worked. American company towns weren't far different from what the ancap dream ultimately is, and they were functional, as long as you don't define functional as protecting human and worker rights and allowing for social mobility.
That's fair enough I guess, I suppose I was defining functional as protecting various rights that technically aren't necessary for an extant society. On the other hand, I very extremely doubt any of the self proclaimed libertarian anarcho-capitalists believe the actual end results of such a system are what would happen, nor would they want such a system to be the one they live under.