AnCap Rogue

✝️🏴🌗 “The right to self-ownership asserts the absolute right of each man, by virtue of his being a human being, to “own” his own body” - M. N. Rothbard

[AnCap Rogue @AnCapRogue]

The idea of "anarcho-unity" poses the interesting idea that ancaps and ancoms should work together to abolish the state. I first heard about the idea from @AncapAir and have been reading many people's opinions since.

From what I've seen, we really need to clarify the scales at which we're operating here. macro (society-wide) vs. micro (small-scale communities).

Ancaps like myself tend to view anarcho-capitalism through a macro lens. In a stateless society, free trade and the private ownership of the means of production naturally emerge from individual rights and self-ownership. This is just the natural result of people interacting without coercion. Capitalism really is anarchism at a macro scale where no central authority dictates outcomes.

True macro-scale communism is incompatible with anarchism. If "the public" collectively owns the means of production across an entire society, it requires enforcement mechanisms to manage resources and resolve disputes. This would inevitably centralize power into a de facto state, undermining the meaning of anarchy in this case.

I think we all know that history shows repeatedly that attempts at large-scale communist systems devolve into authoritarianism because incentives break down without private property.

Here's the interesting part. From what I've read, it seems that many ancoms approach anarcho-communism on a micro scale. They envision many small, voluntary communes where resources are shared. These communes would engage in free trade with other communes or private enterprises without imposing their model universally.

Here, where you have voluntary anarcho-communism on a micro scale, this is actually already allowed under anarcho-capitalism. Voluntary communes are just one type of private association in a free market. An anarcho-capitalist society explicitly allows people to form co-ops and communes on their own land, as long as participation is consensual and no rights are violated.

Think about it this way. Within the context of my family at home, I'm a "communist." I share resources equally with my wife and kids based on their needs without tracking their contributions or payment. This works because it's a small, trusting, loving group with shared goals. If you scale this up to millions of strangers, it collapses immediately. Misaligned incentives and coercion become inevitable.

The same applies to the anarcho-unity debate. Micro-scale ancom communes may thrive within a macro anarcho-capitalist framework. But flipping it around, imposing anarcho-communist principles on the macro level, requires a state to enforce redistribution since a trust structure isn’t there.

What it boils down to is that I believe unity is only achievable if the society is an anarcho-capitalist society on the macro scale. Ancaps provide the macro structure which would be stateless capitalism with universal respect for property rights. Ancom principles may operate here at the micro level, by forming voluntary communes that trade freely in the broader market.

In practice, this "unified" anarchy is still anarcho-capitalism, just with some micro-voluntary-ancom-communes. Ancoms living their ideals voluntarily in small groups aren't a threat. This is a feature of freedom.

But if anarcho-communism demands macro-scale collective ownership under one centrally managed system, unity breaks down. That path inherently recreates the state, violating anarchist principles for everyone.

TLDR:

An anarchist society where there are anarcho-capitalist principles on a macro scale can work with anarcho-communist principles on a micro scale. The reverse cannot be true, because communism on a macro scale implies the state.

I am all for “anarcho-unity” in the macro-ancap-sense, not in the macro-ancom-sense as I’ve described.

Let me know what you think.

[Keegan Loyst 🇨🇦 @KMLOnt]

There’s libertarians, there’s socialists who know they’re socialists, and there’s socialists who don’t.

That’s it.

[LiquidZulu, most consistent mofo you know @liquid2ulu]

Anyone remember that time that Bernie tried debating a libertarian?

[Patrick Smith @NotGovernor]

Capitalism is the only economic system.
Everything else is a violence system.

[I_OWN_ME 🏴 @IOWNME3]

Anytime anybody advocates for any 'Law', that person is advocating violence against you.

Act accordingly.

[Ancap Pamphlets @ancaplets]

Rating all forms of anarchism

• anarcho-capitalism: 10/10

[Keegan Loyst 🇨🇦 @KMLOnt]

Everything conservatives say about socialists is true; the problem is they’re socialists too.

[𝘼𝙣𝙘𝙖𝙥 𝘼𝙞𝙧 🛫 @AncapAir]

If you are joining the military right now, I have news for you:

You’re being lied to. Don’t do it! Stop chasing valor and heroism! Stop seeking to commit murder against people you’ve been told to hate by people who don’t know you exist! You won’t be “serving your country!” You’ll be a sacrificial political pawn used by child-raping psychopaths who not only don’t care if you die, they hope it happens so their defense contractor stocks in their portfolios continue to skyrocket! The more of you who die, the longer the forever war will last, the more contracts defense companies get, and the more their stock price goes up!

You aren’t being heroic or brave. You’re being conditioned to misunderstand the difference between good and evil! And though that makes you a victim, it also makes you just as guilty as those who send you to kill! Some would argue it makes you more guilty since you’re the one pulling the trigger. Your victimhood does not excuse the evil you are signing up to commit!

Joining the military is not something anyone should respect by default anymore. The time has long passed where ignorance reigned due to limitations of what information was available. Now, there is proof the government has ALWAYS lied to get into unnecessary wars! Stop falling for it!!!

[𝘼𝙣𝙘𝙖𝙥 𝘼𝙞𝙧 🛫 @AncapAir]

True liberty.

[Agorist Nexus (Brandon) @AgoristN]

I have human rights regardless of whether the government lists them on a piece of paper.

[Shagrath: "The freest of men fly no colors at all" @Shagarchist]

The LEAF ability to not apprehend the unseen from the seen effects of taxation remains undefeated.

Government schools need to be abolished because this level of 1 dimensional thought is so beneath human cognition it can only be a result of indoctrination.

[Liam McCollum @MLiamMcCollum]

The most libertarian thing about Barbie since she said this in Toy Story 3:

[Keegan Loyst 🇨🇦 @KMLOnt]

This isn’t late-stage capitalism.

It’s late-stage democracy.

Capitalism was smothered in its crib.

[Agorist Nexus (Brandon) @AgoristN]

If you support Trump, the Republicans, or the Democrats today, you would've supported King George in 1776.

[Keegan Loyst 🇨🇦 @KMLOnt]

Socialized medicine is when you want to save people so much that you’ll kill people over it.

[𝘼𝙣𝙘𝙖𝙥 𝘼𝙞𝙧 🛫 @AncapAir]

Your life would be significantly better without government.

[AnCap Rogue @AnCapRogue]

@nostalgicskyy I always knew you were a real one 🤝🏻

[AnCap Rogue @AnCapRogue]

Welp… so much for Canadians wanting to immigrate to the US

[AF Post @AFpost]

President Trump has announced a permanent ban on immigrants from “Third World Countries” for the foreseeable future.

The President also referenced the cost of Somalian legal immigrants, including Ilhan Omar, to Minnesota and suggested “reverse migration” as a solution.

Follow: @AFpost

[AnCap Rogue @AnCapRogue]

It’s like JBP says. Clean your room before trying to change the world.

But also don’t govern others though.

[Doni 🏴 @DoniTheMisfit]

People who cannot govern themselves will always try to govern others.

[AnCap Rogue @AnCapRogue]

@GeneralMCNews Globalist organizations doing authoritarian things? Who would’ve guessed?