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"Anarcho-Capitalism" is an OXYMORON!

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MissSocialist Posted: Wed, Sep 26 2012 10:22 PM

 

Get it through your thick heads.

 

"Corporatism" is the natural evolution of what capitalism has always been: the collusion of private power with state power. "Non-state" capitalism is a contradiction in terms. The state is necessary to enforce absentee ownership of property that is not defined by possession (use and occupancy).

Take away the state, you take away capitalism. "Anarcho"-capitalism merely privatizes statism into various "private defense agencies". It doesn't abolish it

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HabbaBabba replied on Wed, Sep 26 2012 10:24 PM

A fat chick once told me something, but I didn't bother to listen. Writing it doesn't seem to help.

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Wheylous replied on Wed, Sep 26 2012 10:25 PM

The state is necessary to enforce absentee ownership of property that is not defined by possession (use and occupancy).

And why's that?

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Are you suggesting that I'm fat? Excuse me, but I am not fat. 

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"Anarcho"-capitalism merely privatizes statism into various "private defense agencies".

Sweet!

"People kill each other for prophetic certainties, hardly for falsifiable hypotheses." - Peter Berger
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HabbaBabba replied on Wed, Sep 26 2012 10:29 PM

I cleaned my screen, like 5 times, but still just can't seem to make out the words... Got my fatblocker on. It's free from the wonderful security team at comodo.

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gotlucky replied on Wed, Sep 26 2012 10:31 PM

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Wheylous replied on Wed, Sep 26 2012 10:33 PM

The question itself was semi-legitimate. The second thread, not so much ;)

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Why are you all afraid to challenge me? Is it because what I say is truth? You can't handle the truth. 

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Lady Saiga replied on Wed, Sep 26 2012 10:36 PM

I didn't notice any questions in either post, actually. 

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Lady Saiga replied on Wed, Sep 26 2012 10:40 PM

MissSocialist, get a dictionary.  IF you can see the pages, that is.  Hold it really far away.

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HabbaBabba replied on Wed, Sep 26 2012 10:42 PM

Here's a challenge: Get a gym membership. Then use it. Prospect of a decent job are clearly out of reach/ At least get into some kind of shape, maybe reel in a man to take care of you. You can probably already cook.

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Your point? 

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HabbaBabba replied on Wed, Sep 26 2012 10:49 PM

Avoid cardiac arrest and get laid. On purpose.

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Wheylous replied on Wed, Sep 26 2012 10:50 PM

I like how you completely avoided my question above and then claimed that we're not engaging you in discussion.

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@MissSocialist

What an-caps mean by "the state" is an entity that operates through involuntary means. Private defense agencies do not fit this definition.

Unlike other forms of anarchism, anarcho-capitalism is not against law and order. Property rights would still exist. However, they would be enforced by agencies operating through voluntary means.

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Capitalism is not dependent on state power or the state. Capitalism in its most basic form was around before states existed. Trade, barter, the utilisation of the division of labour and the price mechanism to for fill the ends of individuals. If you take away the state you are left with capitalism without a state. Anarcho capitalism does advocate privatising the functions of the state, it is in this very process that these functions cease to be state functions.

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