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Anarcho-capitalism It would be an understatement to claim that anarcho-capitalism's place within the anarchist tradition is hotly contested (see); in fact, it is disowned by most anarchists, who believe that capitalist economic relations constitute a form of social domination, and thus contradict the fundamental anarchist belief in freedom. They regard capitalist corporations as being the product of voluntary contracts and thus a legitimate and efficient way for people to organize, with freedom to choose a competitor or to enter competition as the universal way to preserve and promote quality in services. This view holds that capitalist defense agencies and the owners who employ them would constitute de facto monopoly governments in themselves due both to the economic powers they hold and their exclusive right to legitimate defense of those properties they claim. www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/anarcho_capitalism

sp001627.txt Thus it is debatable that a libertarian or "anarcho" capitalist society would have less unfreedom or coercion in it than "actually existing capitalism." In contrast to anarchism, "anarcho"-capitalism, with its narrow definitions, restricts freedom to only a few aspects of social life and ignores domination and authority beyond those aspects. We want the abolition of the capitalist system of authoritarian relationships, not just a change of bosses or the possibility of little islands of liberty within a sea of capitalism (islands which are always in danger of being flooded and our activity destroyed). But to defend *only* "freedom from" in a capitalist society means to defend the power and authority of the few against the attempts of the many to claim their freedom and rights. www.spunk.org /library/intro/faq/sp001627.txt

Infoshop.org - An Anarchist FAQ - F.1 Are "anarcho"-capitalists really anarchists? Both groups approve of it in the capitalist workplace or rented accommodation and the right-Libertarians also approve of it in a 'minimal' state to protect private property ("anarcho"-capitalists, in contrast, approve of the use of private defence firms to protect property). As we argue in section F.10.2, workers are usually at a disadvantage on the labour market when compared to capitalists, and this forces them to sell their liberty in return for making profits for others. Moreover, in practice their system of (capitalist) rights would soon result in extensive restrictions on liberty and authoritarian social relationships (see sections F.2 and F.3) -- a strange result of a theory proclaiming itself "libertarian" but one consistent with its methodology. www.infoshop.org /faq/secF1.html

Anarcho-capitalism More generally, when talking about governments, justice systems, etc., left-anarchists often think in collectivist terms, and may not understand the stance of anarcho-capitalists, who consider any kind of collectivist decision as oppression of the political minority by the political majority. For instance, some capitalists make the misleading claim that all left-anarchists consider property as institutionalized enforced privilege, but capitalists argue that armed individuals can defend what they consider to be "their own" property, either alone or cooperating in groups. The one exception to this is property claim enforcement, which most capitalists believe is a justified form of violence used to impose their economic claims. usapedia.com /a/anarcho-capitalism.html

F.6 Is "anarcho"-capitalism against the state? So, in the end, the "anarcho" capitalists argue that in their system you are free to follow the (capitalist) law and work in the (capitalist) economy, and if you are lucky, take part in a "commune" as a collective capitalist. The "anarcho" capitalist imagines that there will be police agencies, "defence associations," courts, and appeals courts all organised on a free-market basis and available for hire. This means that, in effect, "anarcho"-capitalism is based on a monopoly of law, a monopoly which explicitly exists to defend the power and capital of the wealthy. www.activism.net /government/anarchism/secF6.html

Free Mind Forum "Anarcho" capitalists are, in fact, simply capitalists who object to the State cutting into their own profits by way of regulations and taxation. Because "anarcho" capitalists use the market as their sole gauge of good and bad, they are, in effect, unable to make effective moral judgments! But "anarcho" capitalists don't want any part of that; they cling to vague notions of "freedom" and "liberty" that simply fail to stand up under scrutiny. www.network54.com /Forum/message?forumid=27498&messageid=992413361

Anarcho-capitalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia While classical capitalists such as Adam Smith also accepted the labor theory of value, most modern economists, including anarcho-capitalists, maintain that value is subjective and hence adhere to marginalism. More recently, Somalia is cited by some anarcho-capitalists as a real-world example of how a stateless capitalist economy and a legal system can develop organically. The divide between anarcho-capitalism and anti-capitalist anarchist traditions has been termed as left anarchism versus right anarchism by some individuals, such as Ulrike Heider, who placed anarcho-capitalism on the far right. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anarcho-capitalism

Brief explanation of anarcho capitalism Anarcho Capitalists argue that private enterprise can provide law enforcement, and the market place can resolve disagreements about what the law is and what the law means. Under Anarcho Capitalism enforcement is based on fealty and association, not on location. If enforcement or court monopolies arose, or exclusive cartels of enforcement or courts arose, anarcho capitalism would resemble industrial feudalism for those people who found themselves with little choice of enforcement. jim.com /anarcho-.htm

Anarchist Theory FAQ Version 5.2 Anarcho- capitalists are thinking of how competing firms would prevent the rise of abusive protection monopolists in a society where most people don't support the existence of such a monopolist. Anarcho- capitalists also often note that while the United States has never been an anarchist society by any stretch of the imagination, that before the 20th-century the United States came closer to their pure laissez-faire ideals than any other society in history. Hence, capitalists would be unable to pay their workers wages competitive with the wages of the labor-managed firm, and by force of competition would gradually vanish. www.gmu.edu /departments/economics/bcaplan/anarfaq.htm

sp001763.txt But as we argue in the new section F.2.3 (Can "anarcho"-capitalist theory justify the state?) in a liberal or democratic state citizens are free to move to another state. They assume that capitalist property rights are unchangeable, regardless of how they compromise "individual integrity and autonomy of individuals." That Wilson starts off by using an example of technology (which has often been used to control workers and compromise their autonomy, by the way) is an example of this. Wilson assumes that abolishing capitalist property rights will involve "violating the liberty of others" but it is clear that that maintaining these rights results in people "voluntarily" selling their liberty due to the circumstances created by these property rights. www.textfiles.com /politics/SPUNK/sp001763.txt

sp000051.txt Anarcho-capitalists are against the State simply because they are capitalists first and foremost. Her superior individual, driven by a Nietzschean will to power, appears in the guise of a capitalist entrepreneur who is presented as the source of all wealth and creator of all progress. In her _The_Virtue_of_Selfishness:_ A_New_Concept_of_Egoism_ (1964), she attempted a philosophical defence of egoism while in her novels she portrayed a superior individual fighting the forces of collectivism, particularly in the form of the State. www.spunk.org /library/otherpol/critique/sp000051.txt

G.3 What about "anarcho"-capitalists' support of . . . Instead, they would be like insurance companies, protecting possessions against theft (as opposed to protecting capitalist theft from the dispossessed as would be the case in "anarcho"-capitalism -- an important difference lost on the private staters). In other words, the "defence associations" of Tucker and Spooner would not be private states, enforcing the power of capitalists upon wage workers. In the case of Benjamin Tucker, he was a firm adherent of the labour theory of value, believing that a free market and interest-free credit would reduce prices to the cost of production and increase demand for labour to the point where workers would receive the full value of their labour. www.joe-linux.org /anar-faq/secG3.html

Was Spooner Really an Anarcho-Socialist? (http://au.spunk.org/library/intro/faq/sp001547/secG7.html.) Anarcho-capitalists would disagree with this position, claiming instead that the wage laborer was trading his services to the capitalist for a certain amount of money, and that, as long as this was voluntary, there is nothing anti-freedom in it. According to the article "Lysander Spooner:Right-Libertarian or Libertarian Socialist?", Lysander Spooner "was a left libertarian who was firmly opposed to capitalism." (http://au.spunk.org/library/intro/faq/sp001547/secG7.html) While Spooner was no free-market capitalist, nor an anarcho-capitalist, he was not as opposed to capitalism as most socialists were. It seems most likely that Spooner believed in some capitalistic ideas, such as the need for free competition, while maintaining that human beings had the right to disengage themselves from aspects of capitalism, such as by forming voluntary associations in order to work for themselves, rather than working for others. dwardmac.pitzer.edu /anarchist_archives/bright/Spooner/debate.html

F.3 Why do anarcho"-capitalists generally . . . The anarcho-capitalists simply take it for granted that in their favoured society, although it possesses no machinery for restraining competition (for this would need to exercise authority over the competitors and it is an anarcho- capitalist society) competition would not be carried to the point where anybody actually suffered from it. Similarly, capitalists have deliberately introduced wage inequalities and hierarchies for no other reason that to divide (and so rule) the workforce (see section D.10). This initial inequality has been magnified by the framework of capitalist property rights and so the inequality within capitalism is far more dependent upon, say, the existence of wage labour, rather than "natural" differences between individuals. www.activism.net /government/anarchism/secF3.html

Anarcho-Capitalism Sucks! Well because they claim there should be no government interference in the business of the Capitalists, they feel the need to attach the prefix ‘Anarcho’ to their name. They are a political party which supports the existing Capitalistic power structure of society, and go out of their way to mask their beliefs with all sorts of rhetoric. Actually, Anarchists are against the existence of political parties; we believe in DIRECT democracy. members.aol.com /anarchist817/anarcho_capitalism.html

Rand and anarcho capitalists Personally, I find the anarcho capitalists less consistent, or at least less sensible, on this "coercion" issue than objectivists. Next by thread: Re: Rand and anarcho capitalists For those interested, there is an ongoing argument on alt.philosophy.objectivism between David Friedman, author of _Machinery of Freedom_, and the objectivists hordes, over whether Objectivism would be more consistent if they would support anarcho capitalism. www.etext.org /Mail.Archives/Non.Serviam/1995-11/msg00015.html

A Biblical Defense of Anarcho-Capitalism Most capitalists and all anarcho-capitalists are quick to point out that it is the State, rather than private criminals, that has caused most of the violence in the world. Most generic capitalists reserve several economic functions to the public or governmental sector: National Defense, punishment of criminals, and resolution of contractual disputes. Those who passively allow the State to perform vital social functions often do so as a means of escaping personal responsibility for these functions, and also violate the Dominion Mandate. members.aol.com /VFTfiles/thesis/summary01.htm

ANARCHISM.NET: Anarchism, Capitalism, and Anarcho-Capitalism Thus it seems anarcho-capitalists agree with Proudhon in that “property is theft,” where it is acquired in an illegitimate manner. Even the statist capitalist libertarian Robert Nozick claimed contemporary property was unjustly accrued and that a free society, to him a “minimalist state,” needs to make up with this injustice. www.anarchism.net /anarchism_anarchismcapitalismandanarchocapitalism.htm

Libertarianism The argument that property itself is theft, promoted by many anarchists, would undermine almost all of capitalist theory if successfully argued. These critics argue that without this foundation, the libertarian form of government will either fail or be expanded beyond recognition. Some also argue that current property owners obtained their property unfairly, and therefore lack rightful or complete claim. www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Libertarian

Anarcho-capitalism Many socialist anarchists consider the economic views of individualist anarchist essential to individualist anarchism, and reject anarcho-capitalist claims to belong to the individualist anarchist tradition. In any case, they agree that in a free society, people should be free to organize in any economic way they like, whether in capitalist businesses or in collectivist cooperatives - they merely defend capitalism as a morally acceptable choice among these organizations, which choice they believe is the most efficient. However, from an economic point of view, they disagree with some individualist anarchists about whether capitalism being the economic system that would naturally arise or not in a free society. brandt.kurowski.net /projects/lsa/wiki/view.cgi?doc=26

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The Archaic Anarcho-isms Contemporary anarcho-ists perpetuate the belief that if the State were abolished (anarcho), their particular blueprint for human order (syndicalism, capitalism) would be the supreme form of group arrangement. Secessionism addresses the two reasons why anarcho-syndicalism and anarcho-capitalism remain worthless in the current statist environment. Merely “Secessionism?” would have worked; however, modern anarchists are so consumed with labels that, to them, such a principle probably mandates the use of the prefix “anarcho.” www.strike-the-root.com /4/gronseth/gronseth1.html

A question for Anarcho-Capitalists and libertatrians. [Archive] - jolt.co.uk public forums The money in my pocket is effectively a promisary note from the bank of england promising to pay the bearer £5 worth of gold (presumably) on demand. I think its mostly the latter of these two elements in most contemporary large (capitalist) economies. Anarchism rejects the state, whereas free-market capitalism relies upon a robust but minimalist government to maintain law and order, enforce contracts and defend property rights. forums.jolt.co.uk /archive/index.php/t-340610.html

http://www.qando.net/ - Regime Libertarians: a follow-up Well, as pragmatic libertarians I think we need to realize that we’re doing similar, in that we’re using politics to kill Politics As We Know It, and approach it as such. This is going to be a terrible analogy, but....remember all that talk that marxists used to sling about "the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with"? The paleo’s screw up in reverse, in that since they can’t just smash it all at once they don’t even bother. www.qando.net /details.aspx?entry=2293

Encyclopedia topic: Anarcho-capitalism Anarcho-capitalists, like other capitalists, have no goals of equal wealth distribution and support allowing any individual to amass as much wealth (The state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money) as they are able to acquire or produce. While left-leaning types of anarchism (A political theory favoring the abolition of governments) have historically rejected private property as an illegitimate form of "authority," anarcho-capitalists embrace it as an essential element of individual liberty. Anarcho-capitalists believe that becoming wealthy in a capitalist system generally requires an individual to provide valuable goods and services for society, therefore contributing to its collective wealth. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/anarcho-capitalism.htm   (3760 words)

There is NOTHING anarchistic about capitalism! Because "anarcho" capitalists use the market as their sole gauge of good and bad, they are, in effect, unable to make effective moral judgments! But "anarcho" capitalists don't want any part of that; they cling to vague notions of "freedom" and "liberty" that simply fail to stand up under scrutiny. Further, the "anarcho" capitalists will still require a court system, and thus laws, to uphold property rights and contracts! a4a.mahost.org /huckster.html   (1824 words)

ScienceDaily: Anarcho-capitalism Because of this embrace of capitalism, there is considerable tension between anarcho-capitalists and anarchists who see the rejection of capitalism as being just as essential to anarchist philosophy as rejection of the state. Hence, anarcho-capitalists depart from individualist anarchists on what constitutes concepts such as the "state", "capitalism", and a "free market". Anarcho-capitalists would aim to protect individual liberty and property by replacing a government monopoly, which is involuntarily funded through taxation, with private, competing businesses that use physical force only in defense of liberty and property against aggressors. www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/anarcho_capitalism   (7882 words)

www.BlackCrayon.com: Essays: Capitalism: Take 1 is my term for what anarcho-capitalists call "State Capitalism" -- government run for the benefit of private capitalists. Political capitalism is anti-competitive because established capitalists use the coercive power of the State to suppress entrepreneurial competition, both at home and abroad. It is often called "laissez-faire capitalism" or sometimes "pure capitalism" or even "true capitalism" by those who want to tie the economic concept back to the ethical position of ideological capitalism. www.blackcrayon.com /essays/capitalism/take3   (2881 words)

Anarcho-capitalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia While classical capitalists such as Adam Smith also accepted the labor theory of value, most modern economists, including anarcho-capitalists, argue that value is subjective and adhere to marginalism. Conversely, many, including capitalist libertarians and anarcho-capitalists, use the term "anarchism" with a definition that simply means "without the State". An Anarchist critique of Anarcho-Statism by anarcho - from Infoshop.org en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anarcho-capitalism   (8377 words)

Anarchist Theory FAQ Version 5.2 Anarcho- capitalists are thinking of how competing firms would prevent the rise of abusive protection monopolists in a society where most people don't support the existence of such a monopolist. Anarcho- capitalists also often note that while the United States has never been an anarchist society by any stretch of the imagination, that before the 20th-century the United States came closer to their pure laissez-faire ideals than any other society in history. Anarcho-capitalists find that the argument works in precisely the opposite direction. www.gmu.edu /departments/economics/bcaplan/anarfaq.htm   (17216 words)

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