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    Personally I’m an anarchist/libertarian

    I think you mean Anarcho-Capitalist. Anarchism is a socialist ideology and Anarcho-Capitalism, despite its silly name, is not anarchist.

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        Yeah… no.

        The guy who coined the term “anarchism” (without adjectives), Proudhon, was a socialist. He used it to describe a socialist ideology, and it has been a socialist tradition ever since. There has of course been plenty of attempts to hijack the term, but even the “anarchism without adjectives” folks don’t include “anarchism with hierarchy”.

        Proudhon also popularised the slogan “Property is theft”. And capitalism is of course fundamentally based on private property. So you have “property is theft” on one hand, and “property as a fundamental right” on the other. Are you able to perceive some kind of contradiction here?

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            Why are you so obsessed with identity? It’s OK not to be anarchist. I’m not. And I’m not gatekeeping. But I am pointing out that you are contradicting yourself. Anarcho-Capitalism is an oxymoron. A non-sequitur. It’s not anarchist just because you feel like it should be. Anarchism and Capitalism are not compatible by definition.

            If you actually want to learn something, have a look at what The Anarchist FAQ has to say about it: Section F: Is “anarcho”-capitalism a type of anarchism?.

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                Ah, of course, you’re above all of that. Instead you spend your time sharing amazing insights such as:

                national “socialism”. it’s literally in the name.