- 08 Jul 2012 23:42
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The solution to 1984 is 1973!
Until I found this forum I had never heard of anarcho-capitalism. At first it seemed a contradiction in terms - anarchy means without rulers - capitalism is the rule of the moneyed, essentially neo-feudalism. The wage-slave is a neo-serf.
It is now my suspicion that an-caps are really just capitalists that resent the institution of the state for being not quite exclusively loyal to the tyranny of the moneyed. The state in the modern world is at least notionally if not actually for the public good. Elections however carefully managed by the moneyed sometimes allow populists into power. Meaning the state as an institution is not a reliable tool of the capitalist, it is a tool of oppression that is always in danger of turning in the hand of its weilder. The an-cap would do away with such a tool and replace it with private institutions to enforce wealth extraction from the working man. They would privitise the tyranny of the state.
It is now my suspicion that an-caps are really just capitalists that resent the institution of the state for being not quite exclusively loyal to the tyranny of the moneyed. The state in the modern world is at least notionally if not actually for the public good. Elections however carefully managed by the moneyed sometimes allow populists into power. Meaning the state as an institution is not a reliable tool of the capitalist, it is a tool of oppression that is always in danger of turning in the hand of its weilder. The an-cap would do away with such a tool and replace it with private institutions to enforce wealth extraction from the working man. They would privitise the tyranny of the state.
The solution to 1984 is 1973!