DEMONOPOLIZATION AND PRIVATIZATION OF THE SECURITY FUNCTION OF THE STATE
DEMONOPOLIZATION AND PRIVATIZATION OF THE SECURITY FUNCTION OF THE STATE

Summary/Abstract: In this article we will try to value the most radical economical, political and philosophical idea of demonopolization and privatization of the state and its security function. This idea is expressed in the last great work of political and economical romanticism Anarchy, State and Utopia (1974) by the American philosopher RobertNozick (1938-2002). This book changed the way in which political economy andpolitical philosophy was re-thinking. And not just because of the scandalousconsistency of his radical positions, but mostly because he used the techniques ofanalytical philosophy and applying destructive counter-examples and bizarre thoughtexperiments. Nozick, almost all his professional life, dealt with epistemology. AtPrinceton he received a doctorate under the mentorship of the Caral Hempel. However,his research in the field of applied logic and the general theory of rationality remainedin the shadow of Anarchy, State and Utopia. This book in 1975 won the prestigious U.S.National Book Award in the category: Philosophy and Religion and it contains the mostvital moral critique of redistribution models of social justice and the most completeapology of market freedoms. Nozick’s idea of privatizing all public (state) services, andconsequently, security and protection as a state service per se, is a radical political,economic philosophy in which we see the one possibility of restoring and cultivatingthe philosophical practice of utopian thinking in the field posable new economic andsocial arrangement. That is why we will analyze, through the influence of the ‘invisiblehand’ of the free market of private security agency, the consistency of its normativeassumption about the origin, value and justification of the minimal state withunconditional value of freedom and libertarianism as a political and economicphilosophy.

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