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Post by capitalistpig on Aug 10, 2012 10:23:19 GMT -5
Hello everybody. I will start by saying bluntly that I am no communist. I am an anarcho-capitalist. I was told I would be welcome here, despite our differences. I will remain civil, and if anyone thinks that I have not done so, please let me know. I look forward to interesting debate.
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Post by ancomrelatisopher on Aug 10, 2012 11:33:31 GMT -5
I can't speak for the whole board, but I think or at least hope that you'll be welcome here. If you like to, start a new thread about a specific topic concerning your ideology. I would be glad to join the discussion as an anarcho-communist then.
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Post by jmobby75 on Aug 14, 2012 11:31:27 GMT -5
Allright, let the debates begin! Why are you anrcho-capitalist not a communist?
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Post by capitalistpig on Sept 10, 2012 22:20:13 GMT -5
Hey everybody. Sorry that it appeared as if I ignored you. There was some real life stuff I had to attend to. I hope now to be able to frequent this board.
Now why am I an ancap? I base this on two lines of thought: the ethical and the pragmatic.
Ethically, I believe that I own myself. If I own myself, I own my labor. If I exhaust labor on nature, then that becomes my property for if it did not, anyone could use that nature on which I have labored and they have "stolen" my labor. Without property therefore, I am paradoxically reduced to slavery.
On a more consequential line of thinking, property rights are the only way to rationally allocate scarce resources. Also, without property and the price system that develops naturally from private property, one is doomed to inefficiency as economizing scarce resources becomes impossible. I reject the labor theory of value as I have NEVER heard a cogent and convincing defense of it or a convincing critique of subjective value theory. I think subjective value is for all intents and purposes self-evident (however, if this is to be a point of contention, I will gladly defend it as ardently as I can). I follow in the tradition of the late Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk in his critique of Marxism to clarify.
Why am I wrong?
EDIT: Should this be the beginning of its own thread?
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ninel
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Post by ninel on Sept 25, 2012 7:16:09 GMT -5
Welcome aboard!
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