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@alessandro @xale @HeavenlyPossum @squeakypancakes

Are Bezos and Zuckerberg out in the streets personally, carrying weapons and assaulting people themselves? Are they personally, physically guarding their properties (businesses and ideas)?

It's critical to understand that private property, intellectual property, and capitalism (the sources of Bezos' and Zuckerberg's power) cannot exist without state.

"But they could hire private armies!"

And pay them with what? Without state there is no currency in the sense we have now: universally accepted and required.

Without Enclosure and enforced wage slavery, people do not have to seek jobs to survive and therefore are not subject to the exploitation and extortion that grants power to people like Bezos and Zuckerberg.

AnCaps have a completely incoherent ideology, opposing state but thinking that capitalism is cool and can exist apart from state. They can think these absurd thoughts only because they operate under a ridiculously inept and disingenuous definition of capitalism, equating it with "voluntary exchange". Capitalism is nothing of the sort. There are reasons the word was not coined until the 1800's; there are reasons why capitalism as a global system did not emerge until the foundations of state, Enclosure, and colonialism were firmly set. I guarantee you that "Ancapistan" is not a real concern at all. That's not to say that there could never be any tyrants or violent gangs in the absence of state, but they wouldn't be capitalists.