ABSTRACT
Robert Nozick occupies the point of view Plekhanov describes, and his Anarchy is in large measure an ingenious elaboration of the argument for capitalism Plekhanov adumbrates. This chapter is only indirectly a critique of Nozick's defense of capitalism. Nozick's case against socialism can be taken in two ways. He proposes a definition of justice in terms of liberty, and on that basis he argues that what socialists consider just is not in fact just. Then Nozick reasons by example that Dl can be maintained only at the price of tyranny and injustice. The example concerns the best basketball player in the society, Wilt Chamberlain. Nozick tacitly supposes that a person willing to pay twenty-five cents to watch Wilt play is ipso facto a person willing to pay Wilt twenty-five cents to watch him play. Libertarian' capitalism sacrifices liberty to capitalism, a truth its advocates are able to deny only because they are prepared to abuse the language of freedom.
