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On a final note, so-called "anarcho-capitalism" was created by a man named Murray Rothbard in the 1950s. Its creation was based on the faulty premise which reduced Anarchism to the overly simplistic "no government" stereotype (there's actually a historical event that caused this misunderstanding, but that's too long a story to recount today). Rothbard envisioned a society free of the state organized by autocratic capitalist institutions that are completely hierarchical and not all anarchical. Moreover, Rothbard proposed bringing this about by inserting "anarcho-capitalists" into government and rolling back state institutions one by one till there's nothing left. In other words, "anarcho-capitalists" want to implement a stateless society from the top-down using a state that will eventually wither away. This puts them closer Marxists than Anarchists, seeing as that was the tactic Marx proposed to bring about communism (which is ultimately stateless), THE feature that separates Marxists from Anarchists. And if the stateless society goal was the criteria for Anarchism, we would have to call Marx an Anarchist, which would be absolutely ridiculous. For now, I prefer to call "anarcho-capitalists" anti-state liberals (anti-state because y'know + liberals, which is pro-capitalism... few "anarcho-capitalists" - if any - are actually capitalists, no matter how much they want to be).
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On a final note, so-called "anarcho-capitalism" was created by a man named Murray Rothbard in the 1950s. Its creation was based on the faulty premise which reduced Anarchism to the overly simplistic "no government" stereotype (there's actually a historical event that caused this misunderstanding, but that's too long a story to recount today). Rothbard envisioned a society free of the state organized by autocratic capitalist institutions that are completely hierarchical and not all anarchical. Moreover, Rothbard proposed bringing this about by inserting "anarcho-capitalists" into government and rolling back state institutions one by one till there's nothing left. In other words, "anarcho-capitalists" want to implement a stateless society from the top-down using a state that will eventually wither away. This puts them closer Marxists than Anarchists, seeing as that was the tactic Marx proposed to bring about communism (which is ultimately stateless), THE feature that separates Marxists from Anarchists. And if the stateless society goal was the criteria for Anarchism, we would have to call Marx an Anarchist, which would be absolutely ridiculous. For now, I prefer to call "anarcho-capitalists" anti-state liberals (anti-state because y'know + liberals, which is pro-capitalism... few "anarcho-capitalists" - if any - are actually capitalists, no matter how much they want to be).
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TheDarkStarAlchemist
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Fiery_penguin_of_doom wrote...
So I really only support a limited form of anarchy as I see centralized government as a necessity but, a necessity that we should keep to a minimum to prevent it from getting out of control like the problem some countries are currently facing.You have a knack for words, FPoD. I don't believe I could have put it better myself.
I like the Idea of having the freedom to do whatever I want or whatever I feel is justified, but the other side of that coin is that anyone else can do it, too. There needs to be some control somewhere to keep the the sanity of a nation.