So I’m doing a research paper on anarcho-capitalism and have compiled a list of resources. I’m just looking for some feedback on the texts I have chosen. For example, am I missing any crucial literature? Have a listed any texts that wouldn’t be all that helpful or aren’t relevant (that is they don’t pertain to anarcho-capitalism)?
Here’s the list: The Ethics of Liberty by Rothbard For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto by Rothbard The Machinery of Freedom by Davidson & Rees-Mogg Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Nozick The State by Oppenheimer The Lysander Spooner Reader by Spooner A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism by Hoppe An American Experiment in Anarcho-Capitalism: The Not So Wild, Wild West by Anderson & Hill Our Enemy The State by Nock
Any recommendations on other books or articles on anarcho-capitalism or critiques of anarcho-communism?
It’s simply not avoidable that market anarchism was and is socialist in nature and provides no cover for the oxymoronic ideology of “anarcho”-capitalism. Rothbard attempted to separate the “politics” of the individualist anarchists from their “economics,” but separation of the two is arbitrary and pointless, unless one is attempting to selectively appropriate convenient elements of their philosophy, as he was.
While I know all the egoist and individual anarchist were at the least not capitalists in the 1800’s, didn’t Tucker say something to the effect of (paraphrased): At least capitalism is tolerable, socialism is just unbearable?
I’ve not heard that. I’d imagine that it was perhaps a comment on what he deemed “state socialism.” He regarded state socialism as one form of socialism and anarchism as the other, the former authoritarian and the latter libertarian.
It’s superfluous when applied to your rather silly posts, yes. Linking to that is not nearly enough of course, it will not make your point for you and I am not interested to delve into the blathering of people’s whose grasp of reality is tenuous at best, k?
If you’ve nothing to add but dull sophistry, refrain from posting.
I do know his friend and fellow andividual anarchist the poet, John Henry Mackay wrote a book called “The Anarchists” which showed what he thought were the flaws of anarcho-communism, and advocated individual anarchism. I would imagine Tucker had the same views. It was not capitalism that was being advocated though.
No modern libertarian would sainly use the word “socialism” to describe their philosophy. Even if they have different ideas about how property should be handled, they should just call themselves something weird like “post-capitalist” . The events leading up to world war 2 and world war 2 itself can be defined in various leftist groups slaughtering one another.
Leviathan, I also find it interesting that you would post on a forum littered with people who have a “oxymoronic” ideology. I don’t hang around paleo-conservative forums.