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'you might have one voluntary "enforcement agency" trying to enforce anarcho-capitalist property rights, but an entirely separate voluntary "enforcement agency"
by sfg 17y ago
'you might have one voluntary "enforcement agency" trying to enforce anarcho-capitalist property rights, but an entirely separate voluntary "enforcement agency" enforce a socialist conception of property rights, and various other gangs just mucking shit up'
I think one anarcho-capitalist belief is that the equilibrium reached by these competing interests is one remarkably close to what they want. Or in other words, the radical capitalism they desire spills out from the economic incentives present in a system without government.
Another is that these competing interests would result in a world that is fractured into different legal codes and styles of living and that is a good thing: they have no problem with socialists, only with being forced into living as socialists.
Whether any of this is true or not I do not know. The key would seem to be if these competing interests would wage war or peacefully negotiate.
- philwelch 17y agoIt would seem that, over a period of time, these "competing interests" came to dominate their own patches of land. And then the more powerful ones conquered their neighbors. Over time, the nation-state developed. "Let's start all of political history over again, except with nuclear weapons and machineguns" is not a promising argument to me. That's not the argument an-caps are making, but if you take what you said to its logical conclusion, it's that.
- sfg 17y agoWhat are an-caps arguing?