Propertarian does look good…but I still say it doesn’t sound as good as “voluntarism”. “Private property” still has a negative connotation…not as bad as “capitalism”, but people still associate “private property” => private sector => greedy corporation => doesn’t care about anything but profit => will let someone starve to save a dollar. This, despite how virtually no one denies the legitimacy of private property when it comes to their property. But the fact that this is dissonant Doublethink doesn’t stop people from holding on to those notions…and it doesn’t stop them from forming conclusions about people and ideas before they’ve even heard them.
Labels are important, as they can serve as a way to economize on information costs…which is important to everyone, but even more so to people who have difficulty thinking. It is for this reason you can’t just be satisfied to say the common lofty refrain: “labels are stupid. They don’t mean anything. Definitions are in the mind of the listener. People can define words however they want. It’s all relative. Words are just sounds. I don’t believe in ‘isms’, blah blah blah”. And you also get stuff like this too. The fact is people use labels (and yes, to the point of the hifalutin naysayers, labels are used and relied on more than they should be)…but that certainly doesn’t mean thought shouldn’t be put into them. In fact it points to the opposite.
It is for this reason I think discussion like this has a purpose, and it is for the reason stated above that I think voluntarism is possibly the best label. Even despite how people may agree to private property in some circumstances, they will argue the exact opposite in others…But everyone knows what “voluntary” means, and there is no one who argues the alternative is preferred (even if their actions imply that they believe force is preferred in certain circumstances…they still have a hard time actually coming out and admitting it. They are aware how bad it sounds). I think that’s an important key. When you frame the debate in such a way that the statist has to admit they favor force over voluntary action, it not only highlights the root of our entire philosophy, but it exposes the flaws in theirs in a very obvious and easily understood way.