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Re:CISPA Passes in the House - Full Roll Call by javert on Thursday April 18, 2013 @05:46PM (#5573346)
> Liberal arts students = capitalists

Anarcho-capitalists are _not_ capitalists. So liberal liberal arts students can be anarcho-capitalists, despite not being capitalists.

Actually, the term "anarcho-capitalism" is completely invalid. It's like "blue-reddish" or "big-smallism."

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Re:CISPA Passes in the House - Full Roll Call by burtonlang on Thursday April 18, 2013 @07:17PM (#5573786)
Well, "blue-reddish" might be a bad example; that'd be magenta.
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Re:CISPA Passes in the House - Full Roll Call by icebraining on Thursday April 18, 2013 @07:24PM (#5573808)
Why are anarcho-capitalists not capitalists?
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Re:CISPA Passes in the House - Full Roll Call by javert on Friday April 19, 2013 @05:17PM (#5578751)
Because here is the definition of capitalism:

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned. (Credit goes to the Ayn Rand Lexicon for this particular wording of the definition)

No form of anarchism can protect individual rights, therefore, anarcho-capitalism is not capitalism.

Except the scenario that _my_ gang, also known at the U.S. government, happens to expand its territory to cover the entire United States, which is the goal, and enforces a monopoly on government.

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