Taking Ownership of the Anarchist Brand

In a previous post, I suggested that we should embrace the right wing label put on libertarians such as Javier Milei. The reason for this is that it will clear up some confusion regarding the political axis. With Milei clearly a small state proponent, the left becomes equally clearly a big state thing. Nazis, were big state proponents, so they end up next to Lenin, and not to the right of conservatives where they are currently positions by political pundits.

This in turn, makes it clear that all anarchists are located to the right on the political axis, because anarchists are by definition believers in a stateless society. No-one can be both left wing and anarchist at the same time. Anarcho-Communism becomes an oxymoron.

Some may object to this analysis and claim that some non-capitalist anarchy is possible, and that may well be so. But such an arrangement will necessarily have to be stateless in order to call itself anarchy, and that means that there can be no centralized monopoly on force anywhere. There can be no rulers. If the system implies that some group of people has monopoly power on force, it's not anarchy it's a state.

In the absence of a state, Anarcho-Capitalism becomes the default, because it's the only system that replaces all centralized institutions with private entities, operating in a free market, and with no one actor wielding monopoly power on the use of force.

The only real anarchism is Anarcho-Capitalism in its various flavours, such as Voluntarims and Private Law Society. In other words, we can refer to ourselves simply as anarchists. The anarchist brand is ours.

The political axis