ABSTRACT
Robert Nozick was not the first libertarian who had confronted the issue of whether libertarianism requires anarchism. Government has been rejected by anarcho-libertarians on grounds that its very nature involves fundamental injustices. Anarcho-libertarians see ample evidence for this belief among out and out statists and tend to think that minarchist libertarians simply have not gone far enough in distancing themselves from this very bad habit of associating community life with necessary coercion. To this libertarian anarchists have replied that even today there are arbitration agencies that carry on with the provision of legal services, so clearly it must be possible to do so. Arguably, the anarchists among those who would limit legal services to individual rights protection believe that government cannot be justified in terms invoking the principles of individual (negative) rights. For libertarian, free market anarchists an extensive and complex market system is part and parcel of civilised society.
