Anarcho-capitalism is a hyper-idealist ideology that seeks the total abolishment of the state, and for the return of a fantasized version of capitalism. Being an extremist form of right-wing libertarianism, anarcho-capitalists fundimentally reject any sort of class or historical analysis, instead viewing the only conflict in society as that between the government, and the "free market". Anarcho-capitalists wish to privatize practically eveything in society, from legal courts, to roads, in order to liberate the people from what they view as "government coercion", and create a "voluntary society".[1]
Anarcho-capitalism differs from minarchism and mainstream libertarianism in its desire to totally remove any sort of governmental authority, replacing it with absolutely unregulated market forces, such as corporations. Furthermore, in spite of ancaps having "anarcho" in their name, ancapism's place in anarchism is highly contested by real anarchists, largely because of ancaps' fetishization of the "free market", private ownership of the means of production, and economic stratification, all of which is extremely heterodoxical from the normally socialistic and anti-hierarchical views of anarchists.[2]
History
Orgins
Anarcho-capitalism is largely based upon the same ideas of right-libertarianism, as such, they largely share the same history.
Early Individualist anarchists
Anarcho-capitalism was somewhat augmented by the ideas of early statesian individualist anarchists, namely, in their ideas about both statelessness as well as less regulated economics, which differed from the much more collectivist anarchists of the time.[1]
Right-libertarian economists
Philosophy
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Peter Marshall (1991). Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism: '36'. PM Press. ISBN 9781604860641
- ↑ Richard J. White, Colin C. Williams. "Anarchist economic practices in a ‘capitalist’ society: Some implications for organisation and the future of work" Ephemera.