"But genuine markets have a value for the libertarian left, and we shouldn't concede the term to our enemies. In fact, capitalism - a system of power in which ownership and control are divorced from labor - could not survive in a free market. As a mutualist anarchist, I believe that expropriation of surplus value - i.e., capitalism - cannot occur without state coercion to maintain the privilege of usurer, landlord, and capitalist. It was for this reason that the free market anarchist Benjamin Tucker - from whom right-libertarians selectively borrow - regarded himself as a libertarian socialist."

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The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand:

Corporate Capitalism as a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege

by Kevin Carson

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/kevin-carson-the-iron-fist-behind-the-invisible-hand