The fundamental thing that AnCaps don’t seem to understand is that the government is doing the bidding of the bougeroisie. What little rights they think they have under capitalism are just concessions the bougeroisie gives them to keep them complacent and docile to being exploited, and give it all a veneer of legitimacy. If there wasn’t any government to buffer us from the raw exploitation of the bougeroisie, we’d be in a hyper-feudalist slave state entirely controlled by the owning class at every level. You know, exactly what they mistakenly believe communism is. (When it’s actually the most democratic system possible and the only one capable of actually giving real meaningful rights to the workers that aren’t just concessions, but y’all aren’t ready for that conversation.)
The whole concept of volunteerism sounds great on paper but it goes out the window in 0.5 of a femtosecond the moment anyone starts growing in wealth and power like all market competition inevitably leads to. Once there’s a power imbalance, there’s no longer voluntary actions. “Work for me or starve” isn’t a voluntary transaction, it’s coercion. You can pretend you could protect yourself from that with guns but you fail to realize that without a government buffer, the bougeroisie just own the weapons of war directly and can use them however they see fit. You’ll be bringing a gun to a drone fight.
What they also seem to fail to understand is that without a government, you can’t have a stable currency. You might say you’ll use crypto but it only takes one look at the volatility of any cryptocurrency to realize that will never work as a day to day currency. (Not to mention all the other problems with crypto such as energy cost.) You might say you’ll use gold, but gold is a resource needed for industrial applications. It isn’t a neutral resource. Not to mention, you’re just setting up the owner of the gold mine (or whoever takes over Fort Nox) to own everything.
No matter how you cut the cake, anarcho-capitalism doesn’t work even on paper. For how much these people pretend that communism only works on paper, they can’t even come up with a theory that gets that far.
And I don’t know about you, but I didn’t fancy living in Rapture.
