Trade is a matter of the parties involved in each exchange, not a conflict between the parties or their ‘teams’. In fact, the state is antithetical to this freedom, whether or not it is exercised alone or in voluntary association.
Rothbard wrote in the Libertarian Forum (v. 1, p. 184) that “… libertarians, if they have any personal philosophy beyond freedom from coercion, are supposed to be at the very least individualists.” Indeed, libertarianism holds high the rights and responsibilities of the sovereign individual: the right to self and to justly acquired property and thus…