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Your free market part is where you'll find the clash. Any anarchist would say that a free market is inherently oppressive. The only place a "free" market would
by tray5 9y ago
Your free market part is where you'll find the clash. Any anarchist would say that a free market is inherently oppressive. The only place a "free" market would work is in a mutualist economy, and even then, that requires worker ownership over the means of production.
- CM30 9y agoAnd how exactly do you aim to stop a free market existing? Because I strongly doubt any political change will get everyone to work for 'common interests', and a fair few product creators, service owners, artists and others will try and sell their work anyway. How do anarchists plan to avoid this? What about the people who don't want to own the means of production and are perfectly fine with working for others for a wage? What would stop people competing with each other to get more money and resources?
- kemiller 9y agoBut what, exactly, is the alternative to a free market?
- tray5 9y agoPersonally I'm a fan of a workers run syndicalist economy. There are other options, like a workers run market economy, or an outright collectivist gift economy.
- s_kilk 9y ago> or an outright collectivist gift economy. Of which we already have a great example in FOSS.
- gaius 9y agoWhich is utterly dependent on the "real" economy for umm, food and every other essential.
- int_19h 9y agoThe question is, how would you enforce that, if some part of the populace just decided to recognize property rights, and structured their part of the economy accordingly?
- kemiller 9y agoAre there any examples of that working at large scale?
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Any anarchist would say that a free market is inherently oppressive. When did anarcho-capitalists stop being anarchists?
- tray5 9y agoThey never were TBH, capitalism is inherently hierarchical and a system of entirely private enterprise would resemble corporate feudalism, not an anarchist society.
- AimHere 9y agoThe sticking point is not so much free market - mutualists are considered anarchists by other anarchists - but other, major, aspects of capitalism, mainly private ownership of the means of production and the use of waged labour, where owners hire others to work on or with their property - those are outright incompatible with anarchism, outwith the anarchocapitalists whose 'anarcho' credentials are disputed.