The folks at #Macrodose are talking perfectly seriously about something called "anarcho-capitalism". I'm embarrassed for them.
No, guys, that does not work. It is a contradiction in terms. It cannot exist. If there are no laws, there is no property. Which means that no one can own the means of production, no one can own the land, no one can sell their labour...
@simon_brooke I'm convinced the conceptualization of anarcho-capitalism exists solely for "public intellectuals" to push books and organize dumb conferences, talks etc. I guess they're so bad at capitalism they can't even understand their own bourgeois interests (hint: it's maintaining their dictatorship through the state)
@zyd Nah, I think it's mainly an assortment of crooks, frauds, grifters, psychopaths, tax-dodgers, and folk who believe themselves to be the natural elite. The greedy and the deluded, and most are both.
If you want a system in which there are no laws except those which protect the rich and powerful, that's not any kind of anarchism. If those laws can't be overturned by the will of the people, then it's an oligarchy, and an oligarchy of the most authoritarian kind.
Anyone who claims to be either an #Anarchist or a #Libertarian but wants to preserve the right to property is a liar and a fraud. Distrust everything they say.
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