Actually, immigrants flee poor states to go to prosperous states. It does not follow, however, that immigrants understand why the new state is more prosperous than their old state–or that their cultural bias toward collectivism suddenly disappears when crossing the border into low-welfare state. Many liberal Democrats have fled California to escape high taxes. Does that mean they have abandoned liberalism? I doubt it.

Copyrights and patents are tools that may or may not be useful in a healthy society. It might be that their usefulness for harmful purposes far outweighs any potential beneficial use, but I’m wondering how much good it might do, really, to try to answer that question conclusively now (or ever, really), unless it’s just for practice, for anarchists to practice working out their differences. I can see the value in that, as long as it doesn’t distract too much from more important work, like encouraging and supporting each other in learning to practice and promote our vision and principles.

This is why some Austrians are so enthusiastic about Ostrom while still balking at the suggestion that her work is somehow a strike against private property.

He backed off from that view, and the only reason he argued in favor of such things in the first place was to try and ally with the growing New Left (though he quickly realized the stupidity of the movement and split off from it).