RE: What's the best critique and argument against Anarcho-Capitalism?

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What's the best critique and argument against Anarcho-Capitalism?

in ancap •  8 years ago 

I would say the trend towards monopoly. Eventually an increasingly small group of winners in the economy will control the property with more and more people living essentially (if not in contract) as serfs. Monarchy is probably the end game of Anarcho-Capitalism.

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Do you feel their may be a misconception of what ancap really is?

Monopolies don't really happen outside of mandated laws. How could any business hold onto a monopoly without using government law and force? So you really have to examine what monopolies are and how they form. Nevermind that government is the ultimate monopoly and the reestablishment of it would be your worse-case-scenario in this criticism.

In a natural state where there are no governments, absolute monarchies have a tendency to appear. I've never heard an anarchist explain why that wouldn't happen again if the government was removed.