Why Anarcho-Crapitalism is a thing.

in anarchism •  7 years ago 

That thing is an oxymoron.

Moron is the operant term when dealing with one of these.

They claim to be all gung-ho about anarchism, a real true belieber, but they haven't done the barest reading on the subject.

Perhaps they've only read the latest publications, who knows.

The facts are that anarchism has always been a response in defiance of crapitalism.

That is just a fact.


Just as you wouldn't want to have your bridge built by somebody that had never read an engineering textbook, why would you accept as authoritative a viewpoint from someone that so clearly contradicts the foundational documents of the philosophy?


Section F of the Anarchist FAQs, in part:


Section F: Is an anarcho-capitalism a type of anarchism?

F.1 Are anarcho-capitalists really anarchists?

F.2 What do anarcho-capitalists mean by freedom?

F.2.1 How does private property affect freedom?

F.2.2 Do libertarian-capitalists support slavery?


https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-anarchist-faq-editorial-collective-an-anarchist-faq-12-17    

This appendix exists for one reason, namely to explain why the idea of anarcho-capitalism is a bogus one. 

While we have covered this topic in section F, we thought that this appendix should be created in order to discuss in more detail why anarchists reject both anarcho-capitalism and its claims to being anarchist. 


https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/the-anarchist-faq-editorial-collective

Section A: What is Anarchism?

A.1 What is anarchism?

1.1 What does anarchy mean?

A.1.2 What does anarchism mean? 

A.1.3 Why is anarchism also called libertarian socialism?

A.1.4 Are anarchists socialists?

A.1.5 Where does anarchism come from?


These two excerpts are a miniscule amount of anarchist writings.

Unless you do this tiny amount of reading you may want to not call yourself an anarchist, you may disagree with the positions expressed by these authors.

Anything written after 1935 is suspect, imo, because of the influence of crapitalism on what got printed after that point in time.

The Unknown Revolution, by Volin


We have been struggling to bring anarchism to the masses since PJ wrote his book, What is Property, in 1840.

Debate is still raging today over this and that, but the philosophy was pretty well definitively delineated with this work by Alexander Berkman published in 1929: Now and After, The ABCs of Communist Anarchism, or What is Communist Anarchism?

These are the books that define the terms in their original meanings, written by the originators of the terms.

Please stop bastardizing our terms, people have died for their cause.


You can do as you please, but the facts are the facts.

Stop referring to yourself as an 'Anarchist' unless you have read, and find affinity with, the ideas as expressed in their modern versions.

You are hampering the struggle for freedom with your cherry picking obstinance.

Find a new word.

'Anarcho-Crapitalism' is a thing, and that thing is an oxymoron.


For those of you that prefer to let others do your thinking for you, you can go back to your flashylight box safe in the knowledge that there are some of us out here keeping the world safe for anarchism by exposing the truth so you can see the shills. 



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You know I get triggered by posts like these, just joking :D

I am going to explain it here very simply. There is no such thing as "no property". When there is a vacuum of power, that power is quickly filled by usually warlords that fight with eachother until a king emerges to rule over all of them to ensure stability.

So hierarchy is the only way we can have a stable society. But a hierarchy based on force is not the ideal one.

Capitalism is trying to create a voluntary hierarchy based on merit and skills rather than on violence and coercion.

If property rights are clear, and disputes are well managed (you know going to court with your opponent instead of a bloody war) then we can achieve a voluntary society based on property rights.

With the advent of blockchain technology that creates a transparent, decentralized and voluntary enforced property system, we are coming closer and closer to an ideal voluntary society.

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You do not need government for capitalism. If we traded on a barter system, that would be a form of capitalism. Im not a true anarchist in that i do believe that government is a necessary evil. I do however believe that less is better. We did not invent capitalism and ours is not the only way.

Rule by force is the disease, who and how are symptoms.

Let's be fully honest here,

Your poisoning of the well and ad hominem attacks open up for an immediate and emotionally fueled logically-fallacious argument. Its unfathomable that at this point anyone would conflate Ancap and Ancom to mean the same thing at all. Ancaps are by and large fully aware of the difference in ideology between the 2 philosophies and thus have coined a new term to accurately define their convictions. The ONLY commonality between the two is the belief in a stateless society however the tactics used to achieve such vary because of a difference in morality.

Ancoms believe in "positive rights" or that people have the right to things. By this logic, owning private property means that others get exploited because of its coercion against positive rights. This is morally subjective because it must be arbitrarily decided what counts as private property (see Private vs. personal.)

Ancaps, on the otherhand, believe in negative rights and understand that morality is objective and that theft and violation of natural rights are immoral. We believe that the violation of our natural "negative" rights to life and property is immoral.

Ancoms believe in the rights to things (justified coercion to Ancaps) and Ancaps believe in the right to not have their things taken away (private property is Exploitation to Ancoms.) It boils down to the philosophical debate of Moral Objectivity vs. Moral Subjectivity.

I have long since dropped the rhetoric that "the other side's belief is a contradiction in terms" because both have a completely different definitions for the terminology. The term Anarchy means no-rulers. In a voluntary stateless society in which you work for someone, you have the full freedom to leave your employment thus the employer has no rulership over you. In my view, its not a contradiction at all, but a mutually-exclusive stateless variation to its older left-leaning counterpart. Although I don't agree at all with Anarcho-communism I will not stoop to the level of childish name-calling to refute its arguments. Rhetoric is useless because by both side's varying definition of anarchy, neither are anarchist. Instead of bouncing around an echo-chamber, Seek first to understand then to be understood.

Sincerely,
an Anarcho- "Crap"italist

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  ·  7 years ago (edited)

One of the problems for the anarchist movement is the anarcho-capitalists. Even if this is not such a terrible idea in general, it is not clearly the kind of anarchism to which one should strive for. There can not be any free will when there is a market. The market will act as a regulator. At best, people will simply obey him, and not really want to respects others will. The market is the same regulator in the economy as a state in politics. If it is already for that matter, then the market, which it is just the same government but in another arrangement.

Absolutely, making crapitalism 'anarchic' is impossible.
Anarchy has no bosses, no owners, nobody that wants to profit at the expense of another, but this idea just won't stick in the moron's heads.

They are a step in the right direction, but like all half measures, appeasement hasn't worked.

Pics say a thousand words but this cover takes the cake

  ·  7 years ago Reveal Comment

You keep spamming folks like that and you are not gonna like what happens,....

Put out your content, make good comments on other people's posts, and wait for your audience to find you.