ABSTRACT
Anarchists believe that the best society would be a stateless society. Yet most people do not live in stateless societies. In light of this fact, anarchists should favour policies that minimise people's exposure to the burdens of state power. Perhaps surprisingly then, anarchists should not necessarily favour policies that aim to lower taxes, nor should they oppose redistribution on principle. In practice, anarchists should be sympathetic to some redistributive policies, given that existing states uphold and enforce some property conventions. This argument is pitched at the level of non-ideal theory. In the world as it is, where wealth and political power is very unevenly distributed within and between states, it would be a mistake for anarchists to complacently accept the current distribution of material resources for the sake of opposing further acts of governmental interference.
