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Can someone give me a coherent definition of Statism, including its positions on a range of issues such as economics, the environment, scientific research, monarchy, etc. I've never heard the term before coming to this sub, and I'm skeptical to see if the term holds any actual value for political analysis. Hopefully some regular contributors such as u/Derpballz can help.

I feel like the term anarcho capitalist is not exactly the best one to use I feel like the term stateless capitalist fits better for two main reasons one of which it avoids the association with the anarchist left which we aren't very much alike at all. And secondly at least from what I've seen in read about we're not exactly against hierarchy just unjust hierarchy like the state there's no issue between landlord and tenant or boss an employee cuz we consent to those

NAP assumes the existence property rights. I’ve also seen NAP described as objective or natural law.

What are the arguments for property rights being objective, empirical things instead of social constructs?

Imagine this place, where there is a "legislative" and "executive" branch that makes laws. However, are no governing agencies, no subsidies, and everything else is privatized, or funded via the market. What would this be called?

Hello there, im an ancap. I haven’t really doubted my ideology even a bit for a looong long time. But, today i came across a moral dilemma. How should scientists live in an ancap society? I mean, we should prioritize scientifical growth but. How can that be when scientists starve to death? Is there anything that will theoretically prevent them from doing so? Socialism would just give them money so they wouldn’t be in poverty. Does capitalism have a refutal to that?

Hello, i've seen many games like Half earth socialism, however are there any games like this that are ancap/libertarian?

Hello I was interested in anarcho capitalism at one point then fell off the political scene for awhile and was wanting to really get into the philosophy of it more. I was wondering besides the basics if anyone had any good book recommendations or just some overall information or reasons in which you are an anarcho capitalist.

What is the difference between violating NAP and being a private police officer? How is the second one not breaking NAP.

🇺🇸 election day is gonna be wild 😂🔥

That's the part I can't get past.

I'm sure this is going to get excised.

"After studying over 8,000 reports of government-caused deaths, Rummel estimated that there have been 262 million victims of democide in the last century." Source.

This is excluding combat fatalities in war, which would add another couple hundred million to the list.

But sure, let's fearmonger about AnCap would lead to corporate overlords and rule by warlords, while the alternative does exactly what we're supposed to fear on a daily basis.

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So I heard this nonsense today as I heard from a statist that said this wild hilarious talking point to me when I was in a discord vc earlier talking with other statists and Libertarians about random. This one fool in particular decided to go out of his way to refer the scream movie series to use as a Halloween joke to make the claim of ancapistan being built off of it😂. I find this funny knowing scream still lives off of statism and Ghostface technically is a syndicated criminal that works in a crime ring which could be viewed as a state mafia group of their own. What makes me think of this stupid claim is that nobody wouldn't defend themselves, and somehow, the criminals like Ghostface would run rampant, having their own way without thinking violent retaliation won't come back to them. It's kinda funny knowing this point is similar to the purge movie series that I brought up in a different post a while back ago, lol. I would say honestly private security firms at their very strongest would be the biggest enforcer to kill criminals at will but if there is to be some evil idiot running a red market crime ring would it be justified under libertarian means of the NAP to kill off such bad institutions that may sprout out of that scenario? If anything the criminals who would be wild like Ghostface or any psycho character only go out of their way to commit insane crimes when they have a crime ring protecting them or they're in desperation to do so out of vigor/vengeance. What's your thoughts? Do you think this claim is just going back to Robert Murphys "what about the warlords" Argument?