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FYI Rojava exists. The revolution will not be televised.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_Administration_of_North_and_East_Syria
Look dude I hear you and I understand your point of view. However, I would prefer you use 'AnCap' or 'Anarcho-Capitalist'. If you say 'Anarchist' it confuses the normies into thinking I believe something that I don't. An 'Anarchist' has been portrayed as a 'bomb thrower' and 'Anarchy' has been portrayed as 'chaos' (intentionally) for too long. Now we are having our name stolen. I'm starting to think there's a non-zero chance that AnCaps stealing the word 'Anarchy' is a pysop. True Anarchism has many sets of powerful enemies.
There is plenty of value that isn't exchanged for money.
There's child bearing, cooking, cleaning, friendship, neighbors sharing tools, neighbors watching for thieves, neighbors watering your garden while you're away, wise old people giving wisdom, extended family members babysitting children on date night, friendship, love letters, singing Christmas carols, helping someone in an emergency, someone playing with you on a sports team, someone playing against you on a sports team, helping a friend when they fail, helping someone study for a test, defending your little brother from a bully and much much much much more.
I feel sorry for you if you think the world and society should be reduced to being only transactional. That's not a world I want to live in. Not all work can be scaled and commodified to create surplus (see the above list). Productivity and surplus increases through improved efficiency can only be applied to a portion of the real economy. Those sectors are what capitalists prefer to talk about and spend their energy developing. There are people, particularly women, who are busy doing the important work in a society and are less able to participate in your aggressive and adversarial economic fight to the death.
The lowering birth rates in our society is likely caused by your putting a money price on everything. The work that women prefer to do has been devalued under capitalism even though nothing else could be more important.
Sure. You can label all of humankind as Machiavellian all you want. It's your right. My main issue with you (and all so called AnCaps) is the use of the word Anarchist.
The article below was provided by another so-called AnCap elsewhere in this thread. In the article Rothbard himself concluded that those who think like him should call themselves Nonarchist, not Anarchist.
Maybe Anarchists (left) and Capitalists (right) can coexist successfully in a free and stateless society. Thank you for forcing me to think about this more.
Well he contracted himself. Every human does it.
Very interesting criticism of left anarchists but its a little dated since it was written in the 1950s. The success of Rojava might prove Rothbards assertions in this essay wrong. Time will tell.
Most important to our topic, however, is the fact that Rothbard concluded this article asserting his political movement should be named nonarchist, not anarchist.
Saying Capitalism is the only true source of Freedom is propaganda. Using Capitalism as a synonym for Freedom is propaganda. Saying anything that isn't Capitalism is Communism is propaganda.
Below is a quote from Peter Marshall who said it well:
"Anarcho-capitalists are against the State simply because they are capitalists first and foremost. ... They are not concerned with the social consequences of capitalism for the weak, powerless and ignorant. ... As such, anarcho-capitalism overlooks the egalitarian implications of traditional individualist anarchists like Spooner and Tucker. In fact, few anarchists would accept the 'anarcho-capitalists' into the anarchist camp since they do not share a concern for economic equality and social justice. Their self-interested, calculating market men would be incapable of practising voluntary co-operation and mutual aid. Anarcho-capitalists, even if they do reject the state, might therefore best be called right-wing libertarians rather than anarchists."
You should start calling what you believe Capitalism and our status-quo State Capitalism. You shouldn't try to change the fundamentals of anarchism because it's been around hundreds of years. You can read volumes upon volumes of the literature anarchists have made over the years.
Finally, I don't care to get into the merits of Capitalism and Anarchism with you. I'm saying it's disingenuous for you to call yourself Anarchist because stealing away it's name is an attempt to nullify it in a dishonest way.
My real hope is Bitcoin will make the Communism vs Capitalism narrative go away. It's a ruling class propaganda fuelled False Choice fallacy.
We can hope. We will know if our little Bitcoin experiment succeeds.
Maybe the two are related?
Can you recommend some further reading on this?
True Free Market Capitalism isn't bad in theory. It just can't last more that a generation or two. It can never sustain; it is always temporary. It's winner take all over time. The ruling class and ruled class always separate out.
Don't misunderstand me. I hate Capitalism and Communism equally. The Authoritarians present a false choice through their propaganda. They want you to think Authoritarian-Left and Authoritarian-Right are the only valid choices. It's bullshit.
Have you ever played slither io? That's exactly the game theory. Once one party gets an advantage thanks to the Pareto Distribution they use their previous success as an advantage to themselves and their descendants. Capitalism would be fair if everyone started from the same start line. The issue is when the descendants of the rich and powerful get help from family and friends from within their own class.
Rightists and Capitalists don't like talking about class.