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‘Rothbard was an anarchist, but also a capitalist’

May 10, 2013 By Kathy Shaidle

From the New Yorker:

“True anarchism will be capitalism, and true capitalism will be anarchism,” he once said, and he sometimes referred to himself by means of a seven-syllable honorific: “anarcho-capitalist.” Graeber thinks that governments treat their citizens “like children,” and that, when governments disappear, people will behave differently.

Anarcho-capitalists, on the contrary, believe that, without government, people will behave more or less the same: we will be just as creative or greedy or competent as we are now, only freer.

Instead of imagining a world without drastic inequality, anarcho-capitalists imagine a world where people and their property are secured by private defense agencies, which are paid to keep the peace.

Graeber doesn’t consider anarcho-capitalists to be true anarchists; no doubt the feeling is mutual.

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