anchro-capitalism

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anchro-capitalism

can anyone explain to me the basics of anchro-capitalism? ive heard it thrown around this site a few times but im not sure what it is and im interested in learning more about it.

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A few of us including myself

A few of us including myself are actually ex-anarcho-capitalists, now choosing to go by labels like anarchist-without-adjectives and left-libertarian.

Anarcho-capitalism, in a broad sense, is about removing government and allowing market means to provide services like police and justice, instead of having them monopolized by the State. Some an-caps are rather conservative, and they typically defend private property like anything, and act like left-anarchists are stupid or whatever. I find that broad anarcho-capitalism and traditional left-anarchism are quite compatible.

Normally I don't recommend Lew Rockwell, but this is a good article - Libertarian Anarchism: Responses to Ten Objections".

If you have any further questions, feel free to ask!


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i dont really agree with the

i dont really agree with the idea of buisness's running things like the police i mean dont get me wroung i like wallmart i just dont want them to have a police force, lol atleast with an elected system of goverment you can or should (in the case of GW) impeach the offical. there is no impeachment with a private company and the bad leader will more than likely use bad tactics to defend his position. then again the primary flaw with an elected system is that the people especually in the united states don't cae enough about politics and makeing sure that there leaders both local and nationally REALLY have there intrests in mind. i guess im just saying i still belive primarilly in a conttrolled form of capitalism but the big flaw in it is that there is not enough monitoring of the goverment and definitly to much monitoring of the people i.e.)the PATRIOT act

 

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I'm sort of a post-ancap or

I'm sort of a post-ancap or ex-ancap so some of that doesn't apply to me.

I don't think only businesses should handle things, I would imagine voluntary worker cooperatives would also have a share in the market. But to address your objection about organizations handling things, most anarchists do not support Wal-Mart including me. In an anarchist society, organizations would take care of services and goods, with competition in the market. You don't like business or cooperative A, don't buy from them.
But under government, you impeach a president and you get replaced with a new ruler.

You say you believe in government control, why is that necessary at all?


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what i mean by government

what i mean by government control is is that it is something that is voluntery, should be heavily regulated and the more authority you have. im opposed to private control on the grounds that even multiple companys wouldent have the people's best intest's in mind and what if a monopoly were to rise like microsoft or walmart? there is no SEC commision to stop them since there is no goverment and what about even police forces? if you dont have central control elected by the collective concious then you have law enforcement issues and issues with weights and measures one company could say a pound is really a half of a pound or that my money is only worth so much. the possibilitys are endless when standards picked by people as a whole are not enforced. that is pritty much why i belive in government not a shady govenment but one controlled by the people. with there best intrests in mind. 


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So you believe governments

So you believe governments should be voluntary? Like voluntary police and courts and such? If they're voluntary, what would prevent new ones from competing against them, which would destroy the centralized power system?

Arguing that monopolies (which you imply are bad) will arise, contradicts your belief in a monopoly of power and certain services (the State). You're basically arguing that we need a monopoly of power to prevent new ones from arising.

I'm moving this to the politics forum. Fits better there.