Also, I still don't understand, why voluntaryists/ancaps associate themselves with anarchism. Main stream in anarchism is very much socialist and collectivist.
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collectivists captured the name and changed the meaning. As they always do. They did it with liberalism for example. Then anarchy replaced it and they sieze it again.
It's time to stop tolerate this game.
We are anarchists and they are socialists with a mask.
Not really. In case of anarchism, socialists popularized it first. The term ancap is a sad case, too. (But your right with liberalism.)
Also, what is the point of sticking to a word, that is already so tainted and devalued? For me, the term voluntaryism describes my beliefs much better than anarchism.
They will take and corrupt that word too.
Youโre right about the history. Michael Maliceโs book The Anarchistโs Handbook is an eye opener, both about the attitudes of the first to describe themselves as anarchists and of how some of them had attitudes surprisingly in line with ones we share.
Like many other loaded words, left and right anarchists want the same word and general concept that is actually radically different when you look at means and specifics.
What originals thought of as โrulingโ is all authority, even voluntary or that over private property. What we think it means is the initiation of force, etc. I obviously think our view makes more sense.
As for the term being โtainted,โ almost everything else I am or believe in is also โtaintedโ or โdevaluedโ or โloaded.โ If I stopped to care about the opinions of people who make those kinds of snap judgments instead of actually getting to know me and listen to what I have to say, I wouldnโt have time to exist. ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
Anarchism is literally part of the word Ancap, not sure why the confusion there.
We use the word because it accurately describes what we believe; whether others mean differently is not my concern.