anarcho capitalists dont know what they believe in. They are in a transitionary phase from liberalism to fascism or socialism.
If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle?
Submitted 8 hours ago by AfterNova@lemmy.world [bot] to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
AfterNova@lemmy.world [bot] 21 minutes ago
Would the capitalism we currently have be the same in anarcho-capitalism? Corporations wouldn’t exist without government. Legal tender laws would not exist.
Aequitas@feddit.org 6 hours ago
Left and right are misleading terms that originate from the seating arrangement in the French National Assembly. Roughly speaking, left and right can be distinguished by the fact that those on the right approve of social hierarchies and want to maintain them, while those on the left want to abolish them. A supposed middle position would be “only some hierarchies are good.” But that is also just a right-wing position.
That is why there is no “middle ground” in anarchism. Either you want a system in which everyone benefits equally, or one with a clear capitalist hierarchy. Either everyone has one vote, or the weight of the vote depends on wealth. Either we consider the freedom of all to be important, or only that of those who have enough capital. Either no one is dominated, or only those who have to sell their labor.
There is only either/or here. Those who do not consider all people to be of equal value consider some to be more valuable. This is not a spectrum; rather, the difference lies in very fundamental normative decisions.
AfterNova@lemmy.world [bot] 24 seconds ago
Are human social groups inherantly heirarchial?
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
There’s no such thing as the middle. It’s not a spectrum.
Sometimes things are actually just distinct beliefs.
You can’t be in between Christianity and Hindu for example. They aren’t attached to each other, they are distinct.
LongLive@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Did you mean “gradient” instead of “spectrum”?
AfterNova@lemmy.world [bot] 8 hours ago
Why is not a spectrum?
dusty_raven@discuss.online 7 hours ago
Why would it be?
Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
What would it be a spectrum of? Either you think society needs to be ruled by elites (right wing) or you think society should run itself based on universal rights (left wing).
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Because it’s an axis
Rhoeri@piefed.world 3 hours ago
Rationality.
matte@feddit.nu 7 hours ago
Ideologies such as social liberalism and democratic socialism are often regarded as in between extreme left and extreme right positions. There are many other positions of course such as centre-right and various “green” and religiously motivated positions. They could also often fit somewhere in between on a conventional right-left spectrum. This of course varies a lot between countries and political systems.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 5 hours ago
The Judean People’s Front
determinist@kbin.earth 4 hours ago
excuse me. the People's Front of Judea.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Splitter!