/r/Anarcho_Capitalism

29,241 anti-collectivists living by the sweat of their brow for 8 years!

Anarcho-Capitalism is a political ideology most easily described by this image. AnCap's believe in the complete annihilation of any and all forms of government in favor of a completely free, capitalist society. There are many different breeds of Anarcho_***ism's and even though they all supposedly despise goverment, they despise each other equally so. Anarcho-Communists, Anarcho-Socialists, Anarcho-Syndicalists, the list goes on and on and they all have their own view of the perfect post-statist society.

/r/Anarcho_Capitalism serves as reddit's central hub for anything and everything black and yellow related. Being an anarchist subreddit, freedom of expression and healthy debate are supported and promoted on /r/Anarcho_Capitalism. The moderators are, of course, all AnCaps, but they make it a point to never abuse their overwhelming power to stifle good and honest discussion on the subreddit.

AnCaps are often lobbed into the melting pot of racists. While it is hard to pinpoint exactly why, the close relationship between AnCaps and the altright is probably to blame. Many AnCaps quietly espouse the altright in an effort to drive people away from their unconditional love of government. In a way, a horrible government is perfect for AnCaps.

As the tide changes in Washington more and more people feel themselves swept away by a government that does not reflect their personal beliefs. But as time has shown us, regardless of whether the tide is coming in or going out some people will always be drowning. So obviously the only way to save everybody is to drain the ocean and plug up the hole.

So if you are feeling uncomfortable with your government but don't want to start the cycle over again, just remember that there are a million different options for you to choose from and radical freedom (with an option on some privately owned nukes) is one of them.

Below is an interview between myself and a mod of /r/Anarcho_Capitalism

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1. What is Anarcho-Capitalism?

Z3F: Anarcho-Capitalists are people that want to live in a society where capitalistic property norms, and all other laws, are enforced in a non-monopolistic, decentralized fashion (without a State). They seek to minimize the size of the State to the point of non-existence. Here is a good introduction on law enforcement without a State. And here's a good introduction as to why we advocate for capitalistic property norms.

2. Who are the defining leaders/philosophers of anarcho capitalism?

Z3F: My personal shortlist would be: Ludwig von Mises, David Friedman, Murray Rothbard, and Stefan Molyneux.

3. What type of content do you like to see on your sub?

Z3F: I like to see people talking about the real world, and doing things in it, and people using Anarcho-Capitalism and its tangential schools of thought to improve their lives and their understanding of the world around them.

4. Which moderator is most prepared to live in a stateless society?

Z3F: I would be there tomorrow.

5. Without government how will we have roads?

Z3F: Where we're going, we ain't gonna need roads baby. We're talking autonomous drone-taxis.

6. Anything else you care to share?

Z3F: I don't believe Anarcho-Capitalism will be achieved through agitation, but will come about organically as a result of technology advancing and humanity expanding throughout the cosmos. Blockchain technologies, technologies that make people less financially dependent on the state, reputation systems, the proliferation of sensors and the advancement of security, transhuman technologies that increase peoples' IQs, artificial intelligence which makes sense of economic data, etc. will all help us get there.

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Follow Up Questions

7. Seriously though, my workplace is a 40 minute drive from where I live, how will I get there in an Anarcho Capitalist society?

Z3F: The entire point of Anarcho-Capitalism is to shift problems like this away from wasteful central-planners in government and toward decentralized market forces. AnCaps don't seek to prescribe or precisely prophesize what decentralized solutions to the services currently provided by government monopolies would or should look like. My guess is that if public transport moved away from the hands of government, existing roads would be maintained by private firms, associations, and institutions, and private roads and highways (which are already very common) would continue to be a thing. I personally also suspect that absent a government, the property norms that form would still recognize certain "commons" that are similar to the property status of government highways in today's environment. This problem of maintaining roads without the state seems like such a surmountable problem compared to other problems that market-driven human innovation and organizing has already tackled.

8: Many people fear that AnCaps are just an extension of the alt right. Listing Stefan Molyneux as one of the defining philosophers of Anarcho Capitalism certainly doesn't help assuage those fears.

Z3F: Some AnCaps used to be Alt-Right, some members of the Alt-Right used to be Ancaps, and some are in both camps simultaneously. Even more AnCaps don't really know what the AltRight is, or want nothing to do with them. I don't really care about assuaging peoples' fear that "that AnCaps are just an extension of the alt right." Anarcho-Capitalism's demographic makeup or its eccentricities as a subculture isn't something I care at all to defend or criticize one way or the other. As someone who wants to maximize human flourishing, AnCapism is simply the economic and legal model I see as optimal, given what I understand about markets, incentives, and the world. I don't care about defending random AnCaps or Anarcho-Capitalism as a subculture for the same reason I, as an atheist, don't care about defending random atheists or atheism as a subculture. I am an atheist because of the facts as I see them, not because I particularly love or hate the subcultures that atheists are a part of.

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Written by the autonomous conglomerate known colloquially as /u/WoodrowWilsonLong