rothbard himself relates that in the winter of in the course of a conversation with some left wing students he realised that it was impossible for him to support the free market in all fields and at the same time be in favour of a state police force my whole position was inconsistent there were only two logical possibilities socialism or anarchism since it was out of the question for me to become a socialist i found myself pushed by the irresistible logic of the case a private property anarchist or as i would later dub it an anarcho capitalist crocetta roberta modugno the anarcho capitalist political theory of murray n rothbard in its historical and intellectual context