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Re: If Anarchy can work, how come there are no historical records of it working?
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Biomech
on 02/06/2013, 03:44:47 UTC
    You, your source material, Rudy, and Ron don't, according to me, get to to exclusively decide how an agenda driven 'standard english' works.
    Nor was I trying to. "freedom" has a meaning, agreed up on for many, many years:
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    free·dom 
    /ˈfrēdəm/
    Noun
    • The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.
    • Absence of subjection to foreign domination or despotic government.
    The white moneyed slaveowning wifebeating powdered wig imperialist bastards who agreed on that can kiss my ass.
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    These meanings do not sufficiently convey the depth of the subject matter they are intended to encapsulate and limit.
    Then you're trying to cram too much meaning into the word. This is why new words are created, to hold the excess meaning, when the old word is insufficient to convey the concept. Or clarifying words can be added, for instance, your concept of "capitalism" is more properly "State capitalism" and edges into the "new" words "corporatism" or "fascism."

    "Anarcho-capitalism" is much easier to write than "free market anarchy with strong individual property rights," but it conveys the same meaning, because capitalism is a free market system, with strong property rights, and adding "anarcho-" to that indicates that indicates that it is an anarchy, and thus all rights are held by the individual.
    Anarchism covers what youre getting at.
    The meaning Anarchocapitalist actually conveys is negative, implying an easy interface with today's ultraconservative, entrenched power structures and a willingness to compromise on the use of privatized violent coersion to control resources you deny to the appropriate commons.

    Fighting it? Why dont you go plant a garden, Batman?
    If there's a point to your rambling, let me know.
    Sure thing Batman.
    Your crusade of crimefighting might go better if you did something other than prop up capitalism, like planting food.
    DO YOU EVEN PLANT?
    Or do you hire immigrants to do it for you?
    ZING.[/list]

    Read Rothbard and Konklin. your understanding  of anarchocapitalism as stated here is completely fallacious. I have found no other stated anarchist philosophy with LESS willingness to use coercion, except possibly mutualism.