Anarchist & Radical Book Club discussion

Anarcho-Capitalism is Neofeudalism masquerading as Liberty.

This has been a public service announcement.

There was a good debate on youtube a few months ago Anarco-Capitoism vs Anarco-Comunism with David Friedman vs Emaricn Johnson of Non-Compete. Johnson isn't the best debater but he's gotten much better sense debating Destiny in 2019.
https://youtu.be/gTtqSXBsQp4

I've realised that whilst 'Anarcho-Capitalism' is very clearly incompatible with anarchism and practicable libertarian socialism in a fundamental sense, the whole discussion surrounding this is not as "black and white" as we might first assume.

It's unrealistic to expect most self-identifying anarchists and anti-capitalists to accept this on first glance, because it's bizarre to have to point this out, but anarchist economics - something we don't discuss anyhere near enough - and legit 'anarcho capitalist' economics have a fair bit in common conceptually (advocating genuinely free, smaller and interlocking markets, limited centralised regulation and market control via the corporatocracy etc). Of course, the A-caps don't give a shit about mutual aid and growing self-sustaining networks of solidarity, so they almost always make themselves redundant as soon as they open their mouthes. The reason why this is very much a grey, ambiguous area for must of us though is because capitalist realism has completely skewed our popular political lexicon(s).***

If we're honest with ourselves, *we* are the real "anarcho-capitalists", the other people are just a settler colonial, rugged individualism cult (and I say that as a European and non-American person).

*** There is absolutely no reason why legit anarchists should be allowing bootlicking pissboys and girls the world over to appropriate "libertarianism" from here on out. Bowing down to fascism and nativist corporatism is literally the antithesis of that and they should always be reminded of it.

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Luke wrote: "anarchist economics - something we don't discuss anyhere near enough - and legit 'anarcho capitalist' economics have a fair bit in common conceptually (advocating genuinely free, smaller and interlockin"

There is no definitive anarchist economics or even a communist economics, but I'm honestly not sure where you get this idea that anarchists in general are for markets or market control. Many anarchists are against the economy period, against this way of thinking about the world and organizing it this way, against the economization of life, and certainly against markets having more control over their lives than they do together.

Just curious where this is coming from. What you're calling anarchist economics sounds like anarcho-capitalism. Maybe mutualism?