By David Osterfeld
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The Conservatives feel that it is man's moral duty to oppose communism by any means necessary and therefore advocate the use of government coercion on this regard. "The communists," argues noted conservative writer, James Burnham, "are serious and •• • are irrevocably fixed on their goal of a monopoly of world power • Because the communists are serious, they will have to be stopped • • • by superior power and will. "(lll) But, as has often been pointed out by their critics, conservatives place themselves in a serious dilemma.
Hence, they argue, the minarchists, or limited-government libertarians, place themselves in a contradiction for, while believing that property rights must be protected and the market maintained, they also believe that these services --the police and court functions--are by their nature col I e c t i v e and can not be pro v ide d by the rna r ke t . , the government. The minarchist, it is ar- 17 gued, are placed in the contradictory position of reI yin g 0 n a n 0 n - rna r ke tin s tit uti 0 I} to de fen d the rna r ke t • Further, since to meet operating expenses a government is forced to collect taxes, which constitutes a forcible t ran s fer 0 f we a 1 t h fro mit sri gh t f u 1 own e r s too the r s and therefore is a violation of property rights, the minarchists are also in the embarrassing position of relying, for the protection of property rights, on an institutionthat by its very nature entails the invasion of property rights.
87) And an "objective code of rules," she believes, precludes the possibility of competition in this area. It is this fundamental incompatibility of force and production that is ignored by the anarchists. Supp 0 s e , say s Ran din her c r i t i que 0 f wh a t she cal 1st he anarchist theory of "competing governments," that Mr. Smi th, a customer of Government A, suspects that his next-door neighbor, Mr. Jones, a customer of Government B. has robbed him; a squad of Police A proceeds to Mr. Jones' house and is met at the door by a squad of Police B, who declare that they do not accept the validity of Mr.