Anarchocapitalism is an actual thing, though it’s about as anarchistic as nationalsocialism is socialist. It basically means “remove government, make everyone corporate slaves”.
And, tbh, I think it’s a valid criticism of anarchism, that any actual large-scale attempt at anarchism (so any attempt that also involves bad actors) will quite quickly lead to anarchocapitalism.
(Btw, that’s a big issue with pretty much every socioeconomical system: If you only have good actors in the population and everyone is totally behind the idea, pretty much any system can work well. But in real life a large part of the population are bad actors who only have their own benefit in mind. Thus, for any system to work well, it needs to be designed in a way that it still works with a large population of potentially powerful bad actors.
Just as an example: Imagine turbocapitalism, but everyone was altruistic, everyone would value competition over personal gain, everyone would value giving everyone the same fair chance instead of exploiting others. That kind of society could be pretty good. But since capitalism rewards bad actors who exploit others for their personal gain, and we do have lots of people happy to do whatever it takes to get these rewards, it doesn’t work.)
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Anarchocapitalism is an actual thing, though it’s about as anarchistic as nationalsocialism is socialist. It basically means “remove government, make everyone corporate slaves”.
And, tbh, I think it’s a valid criticism of anarchism, that any actual large-scale attempt at anarchism (so any attempt that also involves bad actors) will quite quickly lead to anarchocapitalism.
(Btw, that’s a big issue with pretty much every socioeconomical system: If you only have good actors in the population and everyone is totally behind the idea, pretty much any system can work well. But in real life a large part of the population are bad actors who only have their own benefit in mind. Thus, for any system to work well, it needs to be designed in a way that it still works with a large population of potentially powerful bad actors.
Just as an example: Imagine turbocapitalism, but everyone was altruistic, everyone would value competition over personal gain, everyone would value giving everyone the same fair chance instead of exploiting others. That kind of society could be pretty good. But since capitalism rewards bad actors who exploit others for their personal gain, and we do have lots of people happy to do whatever it takes to get these rewards, it doesn’t work.)