A Libertarian [AnCap] society gives full permission for socialism

On the one hand, I do feel great sympathy for the desire for voluntarism. Clearly, the bourgeois revolutions never realized the freedom they articulated, and the goal of human emancipation remained unrealized as old, overt systems of traditional dominance decayed beneath the spreading arms of the commodity and all it entailed. Capitalism threw the peasants off the land so that they had no choice but to sell their labor for a wage - by force. Capitalism spread its arms in an embrace of the world without any regard to consent, with the forcible enslavement of black Africans and the forcible removal and extermination of American Indians. But it never boiled down to the individual preferences of any property-holder that these things happened. Early capitalism did these things by its own logic.

Because the thing with capitalism is that it is incompatible with human freedom, on any level, by any scheme. The market forces of capitalism are global forces, and since the system became a global system in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, it has required a hegemonic power (i.e. Great Britain, the USA) to defend and assert the interests of capital, through both economic and military applications of non-consensual force. The hegemonic power must exist, in part, to ensure that capital can do what it tends to do, and grow into every space it can reach. The commodity form penetrates the whole of society, and market forces, created by humans yet beyond their control, dominate the fates of proletarian and bourgeoisie alike. For instance, nobody consents to a general economic crisis, nobody chooses it, yet it happens.

Voluntarism is just not possible under capitalism. The entire point of socialism/communism, in my view, is for humanity to claim its freedom, from all forms of self-created domination which have historically stood above it yet allowed it to gradually appropriate more of the fruits of nature. But now we no longer need to be dominated. We no longer need God, the king,or the market, to stand above us and dictate the world for us. Insofar as capitalism is a global system, small, isolated enclaves of socialism, even on the scale of nation-states, cannot survive- capital could never allow it. The states that allow capital to exist and allow the bourgeoisie to rule happily use their power to break down any community that asserts its independence, or at least cast it out of the system to languish. Humanity, should it seek its own freedom, must overcome capitalism, and as the no-longer-revolutionary bourgeoisie has no desire to change the world (while they do not control it they do benefit from it, and would not wish to change it), the task falls on the proletariat.

Only with the democratic rule of the proletariat and the global dismantling of capitalism can human freedom become possible. And then, only then, can you have your free, voluntary communities. Then, if you want, you can found a community somewhere on the basis of private property - though you might not find many people who are particularly interested.

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