On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 09:40:19PM -0800, Toby Bartels wrote:
Capitalists are never anarchists; the accumulation of wealth in private hands invariably involves coercion.
(Actually, this statement is a category error.) But why in the world are we talking about it here? Even the post that you responded to didn't mention capitalism, or anarcho-capitalists, or anything like that. Is this some other discussion, drifted over from [[Anarchism]] or something? Is that why TMC is trying to score rhetorical points over nobody?
There was a mention of anarcho-capitalism in the post I replied to, but I edited it out when I replied. My bad. Anarchism isn't the same thing as believing in no government; that is a part of it, but there is a whole lot more to it. Right now I am working on a definition of Anarchism that doesn't use the words "government" or "property" at all.
Jonathan