That analysis explained why libertarians could not look to capitalists for support, that only the petty bourgeoisie and the peasants would be interested in libertarian politics. This probably struck many of you as odd, so this article will expand on that point.
This was so weird and off I just had to share.
It must be understood what is meant by capitalism. The socialist understanding of capitalism is not free markets. To them, capitalism is not the “ism” of the capital market, but of the holders of that capital. It would be more accurate to call the socialist conception “Capitalistism” - rule by capitalists.
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The free market is toxic to capitalists because it‘s an equalizing force between people with unrealized economic potential and those who have already achieved theirs.
It goes on and on like this. WTF?
Don’t ever think that morality or ethics will stop big business.
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tbf it wouldn't concentrate without a state because we would simply take the wealth and redistribute it.
If you only remove the modern state all you get is neo-feudal fiefs supported by PMC knights, with a side of organized criminal cartels. That's how modern organized crime emerges in the first place: an area with a weak or absent state within a capitalist economy.
The capitalist system is fundamentally built on violence and the threat of violence: if someone tries to live in a landlord's vacant property, take goods from a shop without paying, etc there are professional violence men ready and willing to threaten their lives and put them in cages for it. If the professional violence men stop being communally paid for by the state, then they'll become private militias or cartel enforcers and will be even more directly under a particular authority. If anything, removing the state would only serve to accelerate capitalist accumulation in the feeding frenzy that would immediately follow (like, say, all the big local landlords banding together and hiring a mercenary unit formed from what was the local police force, and then just declaring that they own all the property and starting to demand rents from everyone within their self-declared fief).
After they develop further they just become new states fully under the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie or even a new aristocracy.
This exactly. The secret to why this doesn't happen is because it is actually an incredibly inefficient method of capital accumulation, with finance (or abstracted) capitalism/lordism supported by the state being a much more efficient and obscured method of exploitation. You don't feel as exploited because your exploitation has been so abstracted as to be difficult to identify at all.
The modern state apparatus in the U.S. does a fantastic job of helping that abstraction by providing most of the cheap services needed to run the economy while also dumping surplus value into the finance markets whenever their generally unregulated speculative processes completely bust parts of the economy.
ironically in a fully realized model ancap system some kind of decentralized communism/ancom movement would inevitably become dominant and just take over.