lykos is right about the words thing, as people use terms like “capitalism” to mean different things. (Which is why it’s always good to define your terms…but some people don’t agree.)
Other than that, I do understand where the coward is coming from on the “advocating things they don’t necessarily understand”…however I haven’t really come across many ancaps that fit that bill. It’s usually minarchists and self-proclaimed “conservatives” and “constitutionalists” who simply go along with blanket ideas of “free market” and “conservatism” without really understanding the philosophical or economic underpinnings…which actually makes sense to me. For one thing, one essentially requires a lack of understanding of these things to be able to hold the contradictory and ultimately statist ideas that even minarchists subscribe to.
And for another, it would seem logical that in general one would only rationally come to a position as “radical” as anarcho-capitalism through a decent amount of study and consideration…the kind of things that would eliminate a lot of the ignorance the coward is talking about.
I honestly don’t find many “conservatives” who are better-read and have a better understanding of philosophy and economics than an ancap. Indeed I wouldn’t be surprised to see a correlation between an increase in the one, and a closer and closer ideological stance to the other.
I’m not sure who these “‘anarcho’-capitalists” he’s talking about are, but I can’t really say I’ve come across them. In my experience ancaps are basically ex-minarchists who simply gained a better understanding of the things the coward claims they don’t. And even if I come across one who isn’t as well read as you’d expect, he’s generally incredibly inquisitive, and always looking for more information to study…always questioning things and working it out…certainly not the blind acceptance this coward talks about.
I’d also be interested to hear of these ancap scholars who haven’t in one way or another been associated with LvMI. (Of course it’s possible with his mention of Mises.org he’s only talking about this forum specifically, but still. It seems like a hit on the affiliates of the organization.)