What I learned from Ancoms

Before anyone reads this, I am an ex-ancap/voluntaryist. I was one for a few years. :) I don't mean this reply to come off as salty or "Haha!! Ayn-crapitalists!!!1!!11" or anything like that. I just disagree with the premise of your conclusions.

1) We don't think equality is number one but an equal goal with freedom because an injury to one is an injury to all. Equality we believe assures liberty for all. I believe it's a false dichotomy to say you gotta be this or you gotta be that. Traditional anarchists made no such distinctions, we're both social and individualist.

"It is above all over the question of the State that socialists are divided. Two main currents can be discerned in the factions that exist among us which correspond to differences in temperament as well as in ways of thinking, but above all to the extent that one believes in the coming revolution. There are those, on the one hand, who hope to achieve the social revolution through the State by preserving and even extending most of its powers to be used for the revolution. And there are those like ourselves who see the State, both in its present form, in its very essence, and in whatever guise it might appear, an obstacle to the social revolution, the greatest hindrance to the birth of a society based on equality and liberty, as well as the historic means designed to prevent this blossoming. The latter work to abolish the State and not to reform it." - Kropotkin, The State - Its Historic Role

  1. Capitalism is inherently statist IMO. Don't downvote because my opinion differs. We can discuss it if you life.

  2. What anarchists believe violent enforcement is sometimes required? Ancoms don't believe that. Voluntarism has been part of anarchism long before ancapism was a thing, and it's essential to anarchism.

  3. Again we don't set equality above liberty, you don't have to pick and choose. We value both. And no, our beefs with capitalism are arguments about liberty. We aren't necessarily against hierarchy because we are for equality, we are against hierarchy because we are against authoritarianism.

I resent that we'd happily sacrifice liberty for equality, that's just not true. And I don't mean this repy to come off as a dick at all, I just disagree with your conclusions.

I wish every anarcho-capitalist would read Oscar Wilde's - The Soul of Man Under Capitalism. It makes an individualist case for socialism and how socialists think capitalism is the system impeding on individuals.

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