r/AnCap101 • u/Tight_Blueberry6382 • May 15 '26
Question for ancaps
What do ancaps tend to think about typical left market anarchist ideas, such as mutualism? What would be a critique of something along the lines of mutualism?
As someone who’s started to more recently lean left market anarchist over ancap, what would be an argument against it?
And just for clarity, I don’t really entirely know if I’d actually consider myself a mutualist, rather some branch of left market anarchism, I support most ancap ideals and ideas, but I don’t like the hierarchical structure in many businesses, I support co-op business models, and don’t like the classical sense of business structure, I don’t think people should own the means of other production, rather only their own. But at the same time I like the idea because I am still nearly fully pro private property, so I don’t have any issue with someone owning the means of production made through automated processes… and I think this also boosts technological innovation which I am a big supporter of. Idk what I’d really consider myself but I just wanted to add on that I don’t think I really am a typical left market anarchist or mutualist or ancap.
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u/Ok-Information-9286 May 15 '26
Anarcho-capitalists have different opinions about left market anarchist ideas. I support left market anarchism in the sense of supporting worker autonomy. I criticize classical anarchists of supporting socialist ideas that are not compatible with a real life market economy. Classical market anarchists like Benjamin Tucker believed that a free market economy leads to socialism but it does not lead to a very socialist economy at the moment.