On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 1:22 AM, Kevin Gallagher <kevin.gallagher@nyu.edu> wrote:
Here is where I start to have questions. To my understanding, anarchy is the rejection of heirarchies. Isn't anarcho-capitalism therefore an oxymoron?
No, anarcho-capitalism is grounded in the understanding that free trade among free people is a the only road to peace and prosperity. People arrange themselves in hierarchies all the time, and it's no crime if they do so freely. It's often a benefit. This is as opposed to anarcho-syndicalism or various other flavors of anarchism, which are grounded in the belief that money and trade are evil and that love and unicorn farts are sufficient to sustain life.
The existence of currency inherently creates a heirarchy based on the amount of currency one owns, does it not?
No, it does not. There are lots of things to unpack in that statemen/questiont, but I'll just mention two: - Currency isn't money, as such - Fiat currency creation is used by anti-capitalist forces to enrich the few at the expense of the rest of us, destroying capital in the process. Reading some Murray Rothbard or Ludwig von Mises for starters, would be an eye opener for you. Kurt