Ancom vs. AncapQuestions and Answers |
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| How do you organize? | Voluntarily*
*Unless the collective deems otherwise. |
Voluntarily.
One can choose to be an entrepreneur, worker, capitalist, bum, or whatever. |
| What does "voluntary" mean? | Absence of any constraints, natural or man-imposed.
Since you cannot flap your arms and fly, you are involuntarily landbound and unfree. |
Absence of man-imposed constraints.
Aggression by others is involuntary; natural constraints are unrelated to liberty. |
| What is the status of multi-user capital goods? |
The means of production may only be owned by the set of current workers. | Capital goods are open to ownership by anyone, like any other scarce resource. |
| What if someone wants to organize differently? | That's okay,
so long as there's no commerce or currency or private property... so really you can't. |
That's okay.
Anything voluntary is fine, even communist collectives. We are tolerant of all lifestyles. |
| What about those who think differently than you? | It is okay to rob or kill anyone who supports private property. That cannot be tolerated! | We will not aggress against them, but we reserve the right to boycott or shun those we do not like. |
| Do you own the product of your labor? | No; the collective does. We count on the collective to give us what we need. | Yes, definitely. We make voluntary agreements and contracts to ensure this. |
| Do you embrace statist or authoritarian ideas? | Yes, in some cases,
such as our support for majority "gang" rule, and voting for statists like Bernie. |
No. Not at all.
Some detractors, however, mistake our tolerance of peaceful others for support. |
| How do you reply to those who say your ideas have failed when tried? | That's statist communism, not ancom, dumbshit!" | "That's statist capitalism, not ancap, dumbshit!" |
| Are you anarchist? | Yes.
Though a large minority, those who vote and lobby for e.g. minimum wage laws and regulations, are obviously not. |
Yes.
Though a small minority, those who vote and lobby for e.g. kidnapping immigrants, are obviously not. |
