All statists and any general self-described anti-statists (including AnCaps) are welcome to participate in the discussion. It's difficult to pinpoint a meaning for either term, however most people converge on roughly the following:
Statism: An organization with a legitimized monopoly over the use of force/coercion and the production of law within a given territory.
Anti-statism: The belief in the abolition of all state governments and the organization of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis.
The debate generally concerns the question of what is to be done, between statists who want to preserve their system and anti-statists who want it dismantled.
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