“Market Anarchism”
by m
An interesting “Christian anarchism” round-up appeared recently on a site promoting “market anarchism” and the round-up included CatholicAnarchy.org among its examples of Christian anarchists. This should be obvious to any CA readers, but I think “anarcho-capitalism” is garbage.
Comments
So do the writers on that site (at least for the most part). Most, if not all, of them are anti-capitalist.
See “The Corporate Alarm Clock” http://c4ss.org/content/3392 and “’Free Market Capitalism’ is an Oxymoron” http://c4ss.org/content/3202 , for example.
While reading “’Free Market Capitalism’ is an Oxymoron” I was given the impression that it was anarcho-capitalist. Am I missing something?
I would consider most of C4SS writers free market anti-capitalists. Mutualists, Agorists, Georgist/Geoists, and other left-libertarian types. I think maybe this essay by Gary Chartier does a little bit better job of addressing the confusion around how different people use “capitalism.”
Advocates of Freed Markets Should Embrace “Anti-Capitalism”
http://c4ss.org/content/1738
I am a left-libertarian and a Catholic. I do not oppose the free market, in the form of cooperatives. I believe Capitalism as it actually have existed is no free market at all. One of the earliest anarchists such as Josiah Warren, proposed the Cooperative model, so did Joseph-Pierre Proudhon. I would say I am a Mutualist, with Distributist leaning. It is such a shame that the word “market” is very identical to Capitalism. In Emilia-Romagna (Italy), cooperative markets dominates the economy without the huge State privileges like in Capitalism. I think mutualism and Catholic’s distributism in practice have so many things in common.
This website have so many resources on left libertarianism. http://all-left.net/