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> Perhaps many of these thorny issues would be moot in the anarchist
> utopia, where all exchanges of property and labor somehow take place on
> an equal footing and therefore presumptively noncoercively (although I
> would love to hear how IP laws would wither away under such a system).

Hahahahaha. EXACTLY!!! (I love to see the onus placed on these folks,
instead of on Marxists...except, Marx's (and Engel's, and Lenin's)
"withering away" never had the metaphysical burden that anarchists labor
under!)

> The libertarian utopia, OTOH, sounds like a Darwinian nightmare. In any
> event, my life experience has taught me to expect that nothing is all yin
> or all yang, so until I am presented with a thoroughly developed argument
> (such as Chomsky presents in his works), I view sweeping,
> one-size-fits-all theories with skepticism.

Good idea.
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