Don't be fooled by libertarians / an-caps, they are not going to bring you a democracy! Their real world experiment brought only low-wage sweatshops and repressions.
Don't be fooled by libertarians / an-caps, they are not going to bring you a democracy! Their real world experiment brought only low-wage sweatshops and repressions.
The long read: In the 1980s, South African libertarians set up a deregulated zone that they sold to the world as ‘Africa’s Switzerland’. It was a sham, but with its clusters of sweatshops, it was very modern – and in some ways it anticipated the world we live in today
An-cap is literally just feudalism with extra steps. It's the default state of every oppressive cyberpunk dystopia for a reason.
cyberpunk dystopia is their marketing, you will get just oppression without any cyberpunk.
nice part of the article:
When Friedman visited the University of Cape Town in 1976, he gave a speech to an audience of 2,000 in which he declared that the market was a much surer route to liberty than democracy; voting by dollars was better than voting by ballots. The key to freedom was not free elections but decentralisation of state power itself.
And freedom they talking about is freedom of market.
Also, here is the video where Milton Friedman tells that he does not believe in democracy (with good part of word salad as usual, of course). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgrTeEToIX8
There are two different “freedoms” of the market. Free from regulations, and free competition markets. The later requires regulations (such as anti-monopoly laws). A caps are usually talking about the former.
Supporting capitalism is inherently heirarchical. These people are the national socialist version of anarchists.
horrors of apartheid not bothered libertarians too much
An-Caps are just neo-feudalists, where right to rule is granted by being a successful capitalist, rather than divine mamdate.
EDIT: That should have read "divine mandate" but it's funnier this way.
If you stop asking an An-Cap their views on the economy and start asking their other social and political prescriptions, they often turn out to be Nazis. You can explain to them all day how their economy would lead to feudalism, or just ask them politically how they feel about feudalism.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The world of nations is riddled with zones – city states, havens, enclaves, freeports, hi-tech parks, duty-free districts and innovation hubs – and they define the politics of the present in ways we are only starting to understand.
By 2012, Canary Wharf housed more bankers than the City of London, but it was also a privatised space where the usual rights of assembly and protest did not apply and was completely reliant on investor interest from undemocratic states like Qatar and China.
Born in 1948 into a conservative Afrikaner family, Louw had helped found the Free Market Foundation, a thinktank that saw South Africa’s “tragedy” as the mismatch between its rhetoric of pro-capitalism and anti-communism, and the reality of what they saw as “creeping socialism”.
In the supposed “laboratory experiment” of free markets in Ciskei, investors were offered a deal too good to pass up, as the state paid the wages of their employees, subsidised 80% of the cost of their factory rentals and billed them for no corporate taxes.
They prophesied a variety of coexisting political forms, including a canton called Workers Paradise where “everyone was issued with a copy of Mao’s little red book” and racial segregation was reinstituted because Black and white leftist radicals “refused to mix with each other socially”.
When Mandela spoke from a balcony in Cape Town partially covered with a red Soviet flag, people pressing in and lifted up on shoulders and arms to see him, his message was clear and unambiguous: “Universal suffrage on a common voters roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony.” The next month, the Ciskei government of Lennox Sebe was overthrown in a coup, with a crowd chanting: “Viva ANC!
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