Suppose some people don't like the services furnished by a "minimal state." Don’t these people have the right to establish their own services to compete with the minimal state?
The original "leftists" wanted to abolish government regulation and controls. The rightists were the old control-freak authoritarians. But then the Jacobins hijacked the Left.
The new "gold-exchange standard" of the 1920s was a new concoction of the world's regimes after the Great War. It certainly wasn't a true gold standard.
