(April 14, 2010 at 6:42 pm)Tiberius Wrote: This is a thread on anarcho-capitalist libertarianism; libertarianism operates under specific freedoms, one of which involves the protection of liberties (which includes protection against slavery). The others focus on the protection of life, and the protection of an individual's prosperity. If a capitalist system is being used to enhance slavery, it is not anarcho-capitalist libertarianism by definition.
Anarcho ≠ anarchy?
If it is anarchy, then there are no regulations in the entire system. There is no concern with social justice in libertarianism (as per my dictionary, see
Dictionary Wrote:The adherents of libertarianism believe that private morality is not the state's affair and that therefore activities such as drug use and prostitution, which arguably harm no one but the participants, should not be illegal. Libertarianism shares elements with anarchism, although it is generally associated more with the political right (chiefly in the U.S.). Unlike traditional liberalism, however, libertarianism lacks a concern with social justice..
Are you, or are you not, using anarcho to mean anarchy? Are you, or are you not, using libertarianism to mean "an extreme laissez-faire political philosophy advocating only minimal state intervention in the lives of citizens."? It appears that you are arguing simply for the abolishment of regulations... but then you have told us that laws (which are regulations, and in our countries (US, UK) socially derived) supersede business actions... and you simply can't have them both at once (no regulations and laws). Would you like to explain how you figure it is possible to have them both at once?
I hope we all understand what you mean by capitalism... considering that we are constantly arguing socialism vs capitalism of late.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day