Love to see how you'd run your 'free market' without their police and army to shoot anyone who tries to eat for free.

He's doing it on purpose. He wants to co-opt the popular, meaningful label 'anti-capitalism' for his own fundie ideology. Just like with the oxymoron 'anarcho-capitalist'.

Yep! Pure obsession with semantics if anything. No different from the Nazis calling themselves national-socialist, everyone loves the term apparently! Communist, fascist, left-wing free-market, we're all socialists! And everyone of them hates "capitalism" for some reason too. I guess that's what happens when you have science-fiction writers for philosophers, everything seems like one giant LARP-ing contest. Let them keep the romantic rhetoric, and we Libertarians can actually continue preaching Liberty to the world.

I absolutely agree, and this is where I really am increasingly weary towards "left-wing market anarchists" (besides Agorism). They are filled with too much semantics and romanticism trumping over practical reason. A large part of this is undoubtedly linked back to Tucker/Spooner's usage of the phrase "socialist" which meant nothing what it means today. Hence, why they embraced the term.

In the same sense, the world "capitalist" has also had a complete turn. And in fact, if your opponent hates on you and calls you names, what better way to co-opt it from their own hands and make it your own, make it something you embrace and make it positive. That is why we are all capitalists and not make-believe "socialist" market anarchists.

The fact that one can call themselves an individual-ist and a social-ist at the same time is oxymoronic. Why attribute your name to the social cause (collectivism?), when each and everyone should be for the individual cause (anarchism). Or is your view of anarchy to replace the rule by the few, with the rule by the mob (social)?

Several decades ago, Margaret Thatcher claimed: "There is no alternative".
She was referring to capitalism. Today, this negative attitude still persists.

I would like to offer an alternative to capitalism for the American people to consider.
Please click on the following link. It will take you to an essay titled: "Home of the Brave?"
which was published by the Athenaeum Library of Philosophy:
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John Steinsvold

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result."
~ Albert Einstein

Rather than fighting this impractical battle to redefine liberty as radical leftism, we are better off from a philosophical and pragmatic position to as much as possible avoid loaded terms in favor of those without baggage and which better describe the positions of liberty. So going after "capitalism" by creating two uses of the term which if ever seen, are seen only very rarely, merely alienates the overwhelming majority of potential allies and coverts, just as holding onto the misleading terms of "leftism" and "socialism" (both of which have to have lengthy explanations which largely ignore history, in order to seem even remotely compatible with the absence of the state) also drives away or puts up unnecessary barriers to allies.

I have lost count of the number of times I have asked why there is this death grip on the term "socialism" and other similar statist terms by many at C4SS, when it adds nothing positive, but instead merely puts up barriers to growing support. So far the best answers I have received, on the rare time answers are offered, has been those lengthy attempts to justify the usage because of obscure efforts of the past to redefine the terms along similar lines. Obviously this is not a justification at all, but rather weak appeals to authority at best.

To drive the point home in a very personal way, I myself would have contributed time and effort to C4SS because of their Stateless U, except that this death grip on the terms which point to anti-liberty positions. I am far from alone, as threads on this topic elsewhere demonstrate.

Your blind hatred of anti-capitalists is disturbing. We need to reach out to radical leftists… because we ARE radical leftists. Libertarianism is about leveling the current state-capitalist power structure, and replacing it with a voluntary society. It's about ending the systematic coercion of our current system to create a society where all may freely flourish in the pursuit of their own goals. It is the dream of the left. Also, capitalism necessarily prioritizes *capital*. By definition, capital-ism is based on the privilege of the capitalist: a privilege created by the state through intervention in the market. Radical leftists have the right idea, they just don't realize that the market is fundamentally not a capitalist institution.