/ancap/ - Anarcho-Capitalism

You're looking for information about the demographics of Anarcho-Capitalism? Don't think I can help you there.

If you're looking for general AnCap theory, the Mises Institute isn't a bad place to go. There's also anything by Larken Rose, or the ManAgainstTheState Youtube channel.

Is there anything in particular you'd like to know? The economic angle? Ethics? History?

>>534

I'm looking for general information about AnCap, i do not currently possess enough knowledge about AnCap nor social sciences to study on a chosen branch specifically. I'll be sure to check those sources you pointed out, thank you very much.

>>535

I like to describe Anarcho-Capitalism as political and economic Atheism, in that ultimately it consists only in the rejection of the ideas of political authority and economic intervention. Ultimately you can get to bare-bones Anarcho-Capitalism through asking inconvenient questions (and this is where Larken Rose shines).

>Why should anyone, or any group of persons, have the right to force anyone else to obey them?

>Why do we think that individuals trading freely is somehow dangerous?

>Why should we trust people with power but not with freedom?

>What benefit can the government provide that the free market can't?

>What is government?

And so on.

Of course, inquiring minds and argumentative opponents want something to fill the void. What about "public goods"? What about law? What about morality? What about mean evil capitalists? These concerns are dismissed by a thorough understanding of Economics (AnCaps generally support the Austrian school, on account of being purely deductive/consistent and less open to interpretation), supported by a sober examination of the commonly-believed myths about these industries. You can learn a lot about these from Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Henry Hazlitt (and his book Economics in One Lesson), Milton Friedman (an excellent speaker and debunker) and some others I can't remember off the top of my head.

If you want to understand AnCap ethics, the two big names I can recommend are Stefan Molyneux (I know; he catches a lot of shit but he's valuable to the philosophy. Just check out the book Universally Preferable Behaviour and judge for yourself) and Hans Herman Hoppe, whose Argumentation Ethics mesh nicely with Austrian Economics and Praxeology.

To me this is a p good introduction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYYBG4BRMEk

Though for me personally it was the Ron Paul campaign which led me to ancap thinking. Ron changed my views on so much and this led me to be drawn towards the Mises Institute. Folks like Lew Rockwell led to my interest in Murray Rothbard's work which provides a compelling case for the well-functioning of society without the state – and indeed that the state's coercion is unjustifiable.

Not sure what your political development is. Ancap to me seems like the natural progression of libertarianism – your threshold for size of government becomes lower and lower until you see the view that the smallest government possible being most optimal for society logically leading to the best form of government being none.

Really interested in what your thoughts and views are though. I don't come at this aiming to create converts, I just enjoy honest political discussion.

>>533

>>400 contains quite the number of good economical and ethical books upon anarcho-capitalist thought.

Essentially, anarcho-capitalism is a strand of radical individualist thought that emphasizes the creative drive towards contractual and propertarian concepts. In other words, the honoring of contracts and property-based relationships is a higher priority within ancapitalism than within other variances of anarchism. Anarcho-capitalist thought transcends the common-place dichotomy on property, viewing the argument as less a matter of the conflict within private/personal and more of a matter of the right of the individual to secure his place in existence.

Privatization is a massively influential concept, one upheld as the primary conduit through which regional change is greatly affected. In opposition to market globalism and statutory internationalism, anarcho-capitalism prizes the need towards maintaining an open quasi-universal free-market. The ability for private contractors and private personal to freely exchange without pesky governmental surveillance or mandatory maintenance is a fundamental dynamic.

Moral objections are multi-various but, overall, there exists a consensus on non-violence and general social acceptance upon voluntarism. The NAP isn't all-embracing and is primary the development of a moral consensus within Rothbardian anarchism. Not all anarcho-capitalists agree with or even believe in the existence of the non-aggression principle.

http://www.ozarkia.net/bill/anarchism/faq.html

http://www.strike-the-root.com/

http://propertyandfreedom.org/

^ The above are three solid up-to-date resources and repositories upon anarcho-capitalist thought.

>>536

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>>561

op here, i remembered to check this thread again after 2 months, this morning. thanks guys, these are really helpful.

I hope to be back in this board soon, after reading and studying your sources thoroughly.

>>541

Op here. I'm 19 years old, currently in uni in Turkey. My political views have always been closer to the left wing in the conventional sense, although whenever I tried to think of an ideal system, it would always have a governmental structure because the opposite felt too chaotic. Hence, I never gave Anarchy a shot, let alone AnCap. This last year, I've been reading around due to my major (Industrial Eng. It sort of involves economics.)

One thing I am pretty certain that will never change is, corruption in those who possess power. Thus it started to dawn on me that an all-around clockwork government is kind of hard to achieve, due to the bureaucracy and all that. What i cannot wrap my head around is how the AnCap system actually works. I assume i'll understand it better when I read the sources given in this thread.

Thanks again.

>>561

Holy shit, turns out Property and Freedom Society organizes an annual event in Bodrum, Turkey. Better yet, I just learned Hoppe lives in Istanbul. I guess i know where to go every September now. Damn i feel lucky