Hoppeanism

Hoppeanism or rather conservative anarcho-capitalism is a Culturally right-wing tendency within   Anarcho-Capitalism which is putting ephasis on the importance of exclusionary behaviour (ostracism), communitarianism and the opposition to  Democracy.

Despite being named after the German economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe, the ideology itself can be said to have started before Hoppe with the founder of Anarcho-Capitalism, Murray Rothbard, as well as Lew Rockwell in the form of the  Paleolibertarian movement (although generally distinguished from the wider movement by being fundamentally Anarcho-Capitalist, instead of just generally), Hoppe having done some changes, although these few changes were also recognized by Rothbard, making it tricky to call Hoppeanism an ideology of its own due to the fact that it overlaps with Rothbardian Anarcho-Capitalism almost entirely.

The ideology is prominent within and associated with the think tank Mises Institute (as such it's represented by it's symbol). Due to memes regarding the helicopters the ideology is associated with Neo-Pinochetism, although it is important to note that, despite this meme being quite popular among political communities, Hoppe and most thinkers associated do not actually favour throwing Socialists out of helicopters merely favouring ostracism and/or exclusion from the property of the residents of certain "covenant community" (As he calls private communities).

Argumentation Ethics
One of the inputs which Hoppe made to Anarcho-Capitalism, although also recognized by Anarcho-Capitalism's creator, Murray Rothbard as "a dazzling breakthrough for political philosophy in general and for libertarianism in particular" is argumentation ethics, which could in short be defined as proof provided by Hoppe for the ethics of right-libertarian conception of property rights developed in 1988. It aims to prove that arguing against the right-libertarian interpretation of self-ownership (which extends the concept to include control of private property as part of the self) is not logically coherent. Although this at first could sound like something that would come to become a widely popular theory within Libertarian circles, the reception was mixed.

Hoppe takes note that, due to the existence of scarcity, conflicts may arise between two or more "moral agents" over the use of these resources. Having the conflict arisen these agents can opt to solve the issue peacefully through participation in an argument. Thus the act of political argumentation presupposes contingent norms for the resolution of these conflicts.

Hoppe states that since both parties act to propound propositions in the course of such argumentation, argumentation must presuppose certain norms, such as, non-violence among them, accepting language having intersubjective meanings, argumentative propositions need to be justifiable as true, etc... these norms were named "a priori of argumentation" (APoA) by Hoppe. Thus the content of the propositions cannot negate the presupposed propositions of argumentation. To do so is a performative contradiction between one's actions and one's words, thus emptying the argument from any meaning it might've had.

Private Law Society
Following the teachings of Murray Rothbard, Hoppe uses Austrian economic theory to analyze the behavior of the state. He defines the state as "monopolists over jurisdiction and tax collection within a territory" and assumes that it's only the personal interest of the functionaries of the state the reason why they utilize their monopolical priviledges to maximize their own power and wealth.

To Hoppe, and many other Libertarians especially within the Austrian tradition, a monopoly doesn't imply a big participation on certain market but when there is lack of business freedom to enter certain market and produce certain good or service, as we can currently see with services such as law. Under this perspective monopolies can't appear, at least by definition, on a completely free market since they're always the result of some state policy which bans the competition on a market or subsidizes competitors within certain markets. Coercive monopolies are detrimental to consumers since prices tend to go up and quality tends to go down to those that could be found on a completely free market. Similar to Rothbard, Hoppe has conjectured that if the services now provided by the government could be provided by the free market private insurances and law agencies would provide a better protection and more peaceful disputes resollution than the ones currently under the monopoly of the state.

Among other things he has theorized in favor of secesion of small city-states of microstates as being favorable to individual liberty, as a transition towards definitive privatization, which is to say, a society of private law, as Hoppe calls it, or Anarcho-Capitalism. He's also established which would be the criteria of contracts in a society of private right, especially regarding externalities and insurance/indemnities.

Monarchy over Democracy
In his book, titled as "Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order," Hoppe contrasts and compares western Dynastic Monarchies against  Democratic  Republics. To Hoppe, a dynastic monarch (a king or queen) is technically the "owner" of the country, since property is passed generationally; on the other hand a president elected democratically is like a "caretaker" or a "lessee." Both the king and the president have incentives to exploit the country their in charge of in their self-gain, whether it's power, wealth or both. The difference resides in the fact that the same way the owner of a house has inherent interest in maintaining the house's "capital value" (contrastic with the tenant). While in a democracy, due to being temporal rulers, functionaries democratically elected have all the incentives to sack the wealth of the productive citizens as soon and as fast as they're able to without caring of anything of what happens to the country as a whole.

In June 2005, Hoppe gave an interview to the German newspaper "Junge Freiheit," where he qualified monarchy, although he's not a monarchist himself, as a lesser evil compared to democracy, and said "Liberty over Democracy!". In the same interview, Hoppe also condemned the French revolution and said it belonged in "the same group of vile revolutions such as the Bolshevik Revolution or the Nazi Revolution" since they all had provoked "regicide, egalitarianism, democracy, socialism, hatred for religion, terrorist measures, mass looting, rapes, homicides, conscription and an ideological and total war."

Immigration
The opinion of Hans-Hermann Hoppe about immigration have been controversial, to say the least, among Libertarian circles, since, traditionally, Libertarians defend liberty of movement as a key component of civil liberty and economic freedom. Hoppe has responded to these opinions by his critics, especially on the Left-Libertarian sphere, commenting in his book "Natural Order, The State, and The Immigration problem."

''Another motive for the enthusiasm for open borders among modern Left-Libertarians is their egalitarianism. What got them into Libertarianism when they were young were the ideas of "anti-authoritarianism" and the aparent "tolerance" in particular towards "alternative" ways of life (non-bourgeois). Nevertheless, they have ended up stagnant in that phase of mental development once reached adulthood. They express special "sensibility" for any kind of discrimination as they find convenient, Left-Libertarians are living at the expense of others. They indulge in their "alternative" lifestyle without having to pay the normal price for such conduct, namely discrimination and exclusion. To legitimize such actions, they insist all lifestyles are equally acceptable. This leads first to multiculturalism, then to cultural relativism, and finally to “open borders”.''

This critique of Hoppe is based on the right of private property, by which legitimate residents of certain community have the right to exclude others from their property as they wish convenient, exercizing their right to private property. It is clear, thus, that Hoppe, as many other Libertarians, understand that freedom is only able to exist if there is private property to carry it out

Exclusionism
Related to the last point about property owners being able to discriminate against certain kinds of people as they wish, Hoppe regarded exclusion towards certain kinds of people, whom he regarded as "undesirables," such as Communists and  Democracy advocators, as a positive. He regarded these previously mentioned groups as a direct threat or liberty and property in the long run.

This can be understood in 2 different ways. One is more contractual and formal while the other is non-contractual.

The contractual way is the creation of a "signable social contract" and the creation of a formal restrictive covenant (That is, the community/town as a legal entity in on itself) of some sort to be a viable way of keeping certain groups out of the community. A community might establish some terms for the entry into said community and thus not let in those who do not agree with the terms. For example, by contract, in certain community, socialists may be excluded. However, Anarcho-Capitalist writer, Walter Block, has critiqued this video saying that "it is entirely possible that some areas of the country, parts of Gotham and San Francisco for example, will require this practice, and ban, entirely, heterosexuality. If this is done through contract, private property rights, restrictive covenants, it will be entirely compatible with the libertarian legal code", in short saying that this, what Hoppe proposes, can backfire and end up in the exclusion of things which Hoppe defends, such as traditional ways of life, for example.

The non-contractual way however is much more simple. It is as simple as that in a community the residents can simply agree to ostracize certain groups of society, leading to the "peaceful relocation of them" (due to them, the excluded group, would prefer to leave the community rather than living in a community which purposefully excludes them).

Anarcho-Capitalism
It is important to remember that Hoppeanism is first and foremost a rebranded version of Anarcho-Capitalism and is not seperable from it. Nonetheless, Hoppe is controversial within ancap and libertarian circles. With resentment of Hoppe (and Hoppe specifically) being in some cases so aggressive that it caused Murray Rothbard to coin the term 'Hoppephobia'.

Friends
Anarcho-Capitalism - My ideological brother.

Frenemies

 * [[File:Altr.png]] Alt-Right - Your ideology appeals way too much to mysticism over rationality, you obsess too much over the racial collective instead of the innate differences of individuals, you're also too much willing to make concessions to socialism as long it puts whites as beneficiares. Nonetheless I appreciate that your representatives are willing to get familiar with the works of Rothbard.

Enemies

 * [[File:Ormarxf.png]] Marxism - Intellectually barren and morally bankrupt.

How to Draw
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 * 1) Draw a Ball.
 * 2) Draw the AnCap Flag.
 * 3) Draw the Von Mises Coat of Arms.
 * 4) Draw a 4 quarter Shield.
 * 5) Make Top-Right and Bottom Left quarters Light Blue and the other two light Grey.
 * 6) Through the Grey quarters draw a thick red line.
 * 7) (Optional) Draw an opened Bible in bottom left corner and a Caduceus in the top right
 * 8) Draw the eyes, and you're done.

Literature
All by Hoppe


 * Getting Libertarianism Right
 * Democracy: The God that Failed (Preview)
 * A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism
 * Economic Science and the Austrian Method
 * The Private Production of Defence
 * Collection of his works on the Mises Institute Website

Articles

 * Mises on Secession
 * Immigration Roundtable: Hans-Hermann Hoppe by Jeff Deist
 * Hoppe: The In-depth interview by Jeff Deist
 * The Mind of Hans-Hermann Hoppe by the Daily Bell
 * The Idea of a Private Law Society by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Wikipedia

 * Hans-Hermann Hoppe
 * Argumentation Ethics

Organizations related to Hoppe

 * Property and Freedom Society (Website)
 * Ludwig Von Mises Institute (Website)

Videos

 * What is Paleolibertarianism? by Paleolibertarian Gang
 * Hoppe On Immigration by Paleolibertarian Gang yet again
 * The Ten Commandments of Hans-Hermann Hoppe by The Academic Agent
 * Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Libertarianism and the “Alt-Right” (PFS 2017) by Property and Freedom Society
 * GETTING LIBERTARIANISM RIGHT | Hans-Hermann Hoppe by SVTV
 * The Entire PFS channel

Online Communities

 * r/HansHermannHoppe
 * Hoppean.org