Anarcho-liberal condition
Designates a political condition characterized by absence of state agency in a functional economy, allowing for rapid accumulation of wealth by fragmented elites.
When there is no political form to mend the political condition, society descends into anarchy. In anarchy society is prone to intra-state conflict. The term anarcho-liberal condition connotes a situation, where society is in rapid transformation, but has landed in a pre-anarchic condition, where opportunities for elites to embark on rapid accumulation of wealth creates an order of things dominated by terror balance between armed groups. This political condition is characterized by extreme and sporadic violence, like when two groups in a stuffed nightclub in Moscow all of a sudden commence on an uzi shootout. As in all anarchy like conditions, concrete security issues become prevalent as an immediate concern to individuals and groups. If the anarchy-liberal condition stabilizes, then we talk about plutocracy, a porous political form, giving rise to a highly unstable political order. For proponents of the ideology ‘Anarcho-liberalism,’ this political condition marks the maximization of freedom, since there is no state, but still economic structures that allows for accumulation of wealth remain. In theory, this political condition can be sustained even for larger polities, if, for instance, an already functional state is dismantled while insurance agencies supply state functions on the market, see David Friedman: The Machine of Freedom. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the dismantling of the soviet type states led many societies in The Post-Soviet Space through an anarcho-liberal political condition where some individuals and groups got exorbitantly rich while most remained poor. Intra-state conflict was avoided in several cases, but not by Russia itself, who nevertheless contributed to ending several of these conflicts in its near abroad and in Syria.