• devils_dust [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    there was this weird phase in US anarchism, where a whole lot of anarcho-capitalists finally started becoming anti-capitalist (which is good of course) and they wrote a whole book about it like they just personally came up with the idea capitalism is bad for the first time ever

    Can you give more details on these people and this book? I always found ancaps very ideologically incoherent, wondering how they got around to reinventing Marxism using their own theory

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      2 days ago

      This was some years ago. I tried, but couldn’t find it again. Crimethinc is a bit like this though. They were never anarcho-capitalist, but they changed from vaguely apolitical lifestyle individualism in the 90s to actual anti-capitalism around the time they wrote this book called “Work” in 2012.

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        2 days ago

        Gotcha, seems like a similar trajectory to many comrades who were more liberal - when they figure out the end result of “free” market competition it’s almost a straight line towards Marx