The fantasy-story of right-wing anarchy is creating misinformation, someone thinks that something like “anarcho-capitalism” is real philosophy, instead of the linguistic distortion of fascist-capitalism that it is.
Should people even specify that they are left-wing anarchists now? Do we really want to put a stop to this propagandistic joke? Anarchy will always be the extreme left into the political pendulum.
And I will tell you more: anarchism is by its nature also pacifism, as it aims to prevent any form of uncontrolled power on others. This is to silence even centrists: another fake group, people who think that it’s not “extremist” in its own abstinence, in delegating violence.
Cool theory. Still Capitalism (and still creates all the same problem capitalism does).
That’s objectively wrong, but okay. Capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production, market socialism is the social ownership of the means of production while still keeping markets. Looking at both it’s clear who the winner is.
And do you expect people to pop out of the womb as anarcho communists? Baby steps, market socialism is a gateway to other leftist thought.
You can’t have Capitalist elements like, commodity production, wage-labor, money, markets, and call that “socialism”. All of the inherent contradictions and harms of capitalism remain (because its capitalism), like theft of surplus value, imperialism, and alienation.
I agree, but it’s a stepping stone. Both as an ideology, and as for the status quo. If people transition from social democracy to market socialism, it opens the gates for them to learn of other ideologies and understand why capitalism and markets are dehumanizing.
I’d rather live in a market where it’s all co-ops and we own the means of production than corpos and private ownership. Even better, communism. But let’s be realistic, that’s not going to happen any time soon. That’s why we need steps like this.