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ITT : Ancapistan. Does it really make sense?
Fellow /pol/acks, orphan of political ideals, I’ve recently started studying the anarco-capitalist theories which seem to be so popular lately.
As a management and finance graduate, I have a good understanding of economics, but most universities, at least in Europe, still follow the more orthodox monetarist and Keynesian schools, rather the unorthodox Austrian school that inspires modern capitalism.
Some of the reasons are obvious. On which base can we pretend that a state of anarchy so similar to pre-historic and primitive societies can be successfully applied to a capitalist society where some public institutions are undeniably necessary, as well as some public properties? Would mankind ever been so great if the Romans didn’t organize with a strong central authority and provided all its provinces with roads, aqueducts, sanitation, tribunals and police?
I’m asking to ancap nerds on this board to clarify a few points:
1) How can an anarcho-capitalist country (or region) defend itself from external aggression of a statist country if its army was privatized? Imagine a situation like the URSS in the 20s when it had no friends: if it had no State, how could Ancapistan defend itself? Raising taxes for an army is against its principles
2) How can Ancapistan defend its borders? The usual answer is “through covenants” among land-owners. If this is the case, how can owners from very distant regions (say, US-Mexican border) organize? How can you limit free-riding? Can every inch of border land be realistically privatized and controlled by an individual or a corporation?
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3) How can a judicial system be privatized? How can the police be privatized? Can they even exist if there is no State? Who are the judges and who promotes them as such? Which citizens is the police supposed to serve? Which criminals are the judges supposed to judge? Who pays for the judges and police salary? Who pays to maintain and manage prisons? If a community paying for these services isn’t it the same as saying that they are paying taxes?
4) It is easy to privatize highways and railways, but how can roads and streets within a city be built and maintained?
5) Isn’t in a community best interest to make sure that everyone has at least basic education (reading and writing, history and math) and thus be willing to provide it for free to the poor?
6) Who would be the judge and a referee in the switch from public to private property? On the D-day of ancap revolution, who’d be entitled to own, say, the land of a beach, of a public square, of a city park? Wouldn’t this automatically generate conflict?
7) Wouldn’t an anarco-capitalist society quickly turn into an oligarchy in the hands of a few powerful corporations? Once all the capital has been amassed in the hands of a few, isn’t it easier at this point control any form of dissent, including fair market competition?
Finally, any specific readings you’d strongly recommend? It seems to me that some authors like Rothbard and Hoppe are struggling to justify certain conservative prejudices within their view of an anarco-capitalist society.
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fuck sake, how stupid of me to try to start an intelligent conversation on this shitposting board.
Thank you /pol/, should I maybe go to >>>/his/?
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This board is too full of national (((socialists))) too scared to talk about anything other than race.
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Nice trips btw
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