“…While there is overlap with the concept of “anarcho-tyranny,” there is an important distinction between anarcho-tyranny and interventionist non-intervention. The concept of anarcho-tyranny implies in the first part of the term—anarchy—a total absence of government involvement, however, that is often not the case. It is not that there is pure anarchy—absence of government—allowed in selective cases and tyranny in other cases, but rather that the “anarchy” (disorder) described by anarcho-tyranny is state-imposed disorder. This chaos and disorder (termed “anarcy”) happens within, and largely because of, the state system, not independent of it.

Anarcho-tyranny implies that what citizens often experience are merely two polar and problematic extremes—total absence of the state and the repressive, over-active presence of the state. The problem with this analysis—while useful colloquially—is that it presents “anarchy” and tyranny as two opposite and problematic problems on a spectrum, as if the lack of the state and the tyranny of the state are qualitatively equal problems. In actuality, the modern states are involved in both of these elements. Francis does seem to make this point, perhaps demonstrating that “anarchy” may not be the most precise term for what he describes:

'You can accuse the federal leviathan of many things—corruption, incompetence, waste, bureaucratic strangulation—but mere anarchy, the lack of effective government, is not one of them. Yet at the same time, the state does not perform effectively or justly its basic duty of enforcing order and punishing criminals, and in this respect its failures do bring the country, or important parts of it, close to a state of anarchy. But that semblance of anarchy is coupled with many of the characteristics of tyranny, under which innocent and law-abiding citizens are punished by the state or suffer gross violations of their rights and liberty at the hands of the state [or other criminals the state ignores]. The result is what seems to be the first society in history in which elements of both anarchy and tyranny pertain at the same time and seem to be closely connected with each other and to constitute, more or less, opposite sides of the same coin.'..." 

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