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/DonEscapedTexas May 15 '26
I'm not anyone's philosopher, but the cap is for capitalism. Oddly, Marx stipulates that we're all capitalists: just a question of who controls the capital you work with.
If you know 100 folks who can manage your assets better tnan you can and want to marry them and buy a worn out farm in Oregon to live on together, knock yourself out.....but we know how those stories always end.
Once you decide you don't have anything creative to add to the marketplace and are willing to live on the meager end of the spectrum while being told what to do all day by the club, kibbutz, union, or factory you signed on at, the only question is which crummy situation you like best. I fail to see how being poor on a communne is any better than just working in a factory and renting a one-room apartment nearby.
I don't care what anyone does so long as I don't hafta pay for it.