The progressive Brehon laws of stateless Ireland

Insight into the Brehon laws of Ireland

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona dhuit

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"The State is only a means to an end. Its end and its purpose are to preserve and promote a community of human beings who are physically as well as spiritually kindred... States which do not serve this purpose have no justification for their existence. They are monstrosities."

– Mein Kampf, 'The State'

"With a higher moral, nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior."

– Herbert Spencer

Adolf Hitler's financial miracle.

Why Geoists and Market Anarchists Can and Should Be Friends, by Gil Guillory and Fred Foldvary – anti-state.com
https://archive.ph/2013.12.03-184216/http://www.anti-state.com/geo/foldvary2.html

This was anarchy and it had very powerful kings

A Brief Intro to Anarcho-Distributism
By W. J. Whitman

Excerpt from intro;

As an anarchist, the anarcho-distributist is ultimately looking for the total abolition of the State. However, the anarcho-distributist is realistic about the role that the government plays in existing society and will continue to play in the immediate future. We see distributism as a steppingstone on the way to voluntaryism (voluntary government), which will open up the market to competition in every sphere—free banking, competing currencies, competing “police” services in the same area, competing defense forces, etc. This voluntaryist State, which allows voluntary agencies on the free market to compete with it in every way, will ultimately “wither away” as free competitors in defense, security, law, banking, etc. reduce it to a non-governmental status as just another competitive firm in the free market.

Around 800 CE, Ireland had many small kingdoms, tuatha, under a Gaelic system with no central state.

Over 100 existed, each led by a rí túaithe, varying from 80–150 due to shifting borders.

Above them, rí ruirech ruled clusters, with dynasties like Uí Néill (north) or Eóganachta (Munster) as rí cóicid.

The ard rí at Tara was symbolic, per texts like the Annals of Ulster. Uí Néill (split into Cenél Conaill and Cenél nEógain), Connachta (west), Laigin (east), and Munster’s Eóganachta were key, with Dál Riata linking to Scotland.

Kings used cattle wealth and Brehon Law, while monasteries like Armagh grew powerful.

Norse raids hit coasts by 800, but inland kingdoms held.

This kin-based system lasted until Viking and Norman shifts.

On Anarcho-Monarchism
By W. J. Whitman

Extract;

"Representative “democracy” is the worst form of government. Classical medievalist monarchy is clearly superior to modern “democracy.” I am an anarcho-monarchist. I am an
anarchist insofar as I believe that anarchism (i.e. government through voluntary associations and
interactions) is the best possible system and the ideal to which we ought to strive; yet I am a monarchist insofar as I hold that monarchy is the best form of statist government. I would prefer
no state whatsoever; but if we must have states, then let them all be hereditary monarchies like those of medieval times."

Under the Russian monarchy, there were no direct taxes. Taxes were collected from the villages, rather than from the people individually. The people worked land that was collectively owned (although they also had private property), and taxes were taken out of the excess produce of the community.

This meant that there was no redistribution of property between the various special interest groups and classes within Russian society.

– W. J. Whitman, On Anarcho-Monarchism