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RE: Don't be sucked in by folks that don't know what they are talking about.

in #m2c8 years ago (edited)

After quite some time of examining my positions very critically, I can say with a great deal of certainty that I am consistent. I know full well that anarchism is socialist and I don't call myself an anarchist.

I also don't support the current system, which is not merely capitalism but 1) a mixture of market and state 2) includes many voluntary arrangements that I would seek to get rid of, but which are not severe enought to bust up on other than voluntary grounds.

For example, "all for profit work" and "all hiearchies" are not such arrangements, but some out of both groups are. So you won't hear my complaining about "hiearchies", "profit".

Edit: Here I should point out that I think the ideology itself leads to a rejection of all hiearchies, not that it explicitly rejects them unconditionally as such.

My differences with anarchism are ideological and I often find I agree much more so with older self-identified anarchists themselves, but not as much with those of the younger generation that studied it and still support it. Syndicalist often have the same ideas as me, but with a touch more collectivism.

In fact I started out as what Marx would have called an utopic communist, having much overlap with several anarchist thinkers but ultimately abandoned the ideas for a more consistent, totalitarian and horrific approach, after which I went through many years of liberal stages.

If you want to meet well read anarcho-capitalists, most of us don't hang out on the internet or at least not in plain sight. In fact most are a bit older. We're not the usual people you find somewhere like reddit. (although I personally got myself an account there a year ago just so I could sign up at Steemit and hence met some of the strangest "ancaps" I ever heard of)

Anarchism seeks to take the club from the hand of those that force hierarchies on others, as I see it.

As flawed as I would have to consider this statement, I've had the great pleasure of working with some of you against particular hierarchies, especially since I got on Steem.

I think this will continue for quite some time, as anarcho-capitalist and anarchist communities are moving closer all the time with the current cooperative agorist wave that washes over the world. This makes me happy, because I don't think we're achieving much by cursing "the elites that control us" and wasting time talking trash on the internet.

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I know full well that anarchism is socialist and I don't call myself an anarchist.

But you did just call yourself one?

I also don't support the current system,

At least we have that in common,...
Really, as long as you don't start pointing guns at me, I think you should be free to do as you please.

We're not the usual people you find somewhere like reddit.

I lasted about 15 minutes on reddit, I had to get somebody to upvote a post a year later so that I had positive karma to join Steemit.

wasting time talking trash on the internet.

We agree there, too.
Better to build the new rather than struggle against the old.

I'm not sure which part got you confused, but I don't consider anarcho-capitalism a strain of anarchism. I'm also a Cooperative agorist, not an Agorist. So no, I did not call myself an anarchist.

Let me get this straight.
You call your self an anarcho-crapitalust but deny any connection between your label and anarchism?

Sounds remotely like the Bolsheviks calling themselves communist.
It's your world.