Left-Wing Market Anarchism

Market Anarchism (sometimes mentioned with an additional "left wing" label in front of its name to distinguish it from Anarcho-Capitalism) is a staunchly pro market, generally culturally left leaning ideology.

It believes that the combo of a strict application of natural rights and of Lockean self-ownership and a totally unregulated Austrian economics in a stateless society will "eat the rich", resulting in much more equal society than a  state regulated  Capitalism one could offer. Market Anarchists do not like the term "Capitalism" as he uses it to refer to a corrupt market where corporate welfare and state subsidies favor big corporation at the expense of fair competition, thus generating inequality. He rather prefers the term "radically freed market." This differs from (most) Austrian-school economists' definition, who define Capitalism as a  free enterprise system and tend to call said corrupt form of markets  Corporatocracy, Cronyism or Crony Capitalism.

Although Market Anarchism is strictly Anti-Capitalism, due to the way they define Capitalism, there is no actual consensus on the status of property within Market Anarchist circles. Arguments have been made by Georgist,  Lockean,    Mutualist,  Neo-Lockean,  and  Utilitarian circles, all with different approaches to determining legitimate property claims. These different approaches are solved through deliberation mechanisms such as polycentric law, but in the end there's no unifying consensus on the topic.

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Friends

 * [[File:Agorismf.png]] Agorism - Counter-economics? Based!
 * [[File: Mutalist.png]] Mutualism - Another example of non-capitalist markets.

Frenemies

 * [[File:Ancapf.png]] Anarcho-Capitalism - I appreciate your enthusiasm for free markets, but please drop the whole capitalism thing. Ok?

Enemies

 * [[File:Authcap.png]] Authoritarian Capitalism - No.

Further Information

 * Free-market anarchism
 * Left-wing market anarchism
 * Center for a Stateless Society
 * Molinari Institute

Literature

 * Studies in Mutualist Political Economy by Kevin Carson
 * Organisation Theory: A Libertarian Perspective by Kevin Carson
 * The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto by Kevin Carson
 * The Conscience of an Anarchist: Why It's Time to Say Good-Bye to the State and Build a Free Society by Gary Chartier
 * Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty, a collection of essays by various authors.
 * Free Markets & Capitalism?: Do Free Markets Always Produce a Corporate Economy? by Kevin Carson
 * The Anatomy of Escape: A Defense of the Commons by by Roderick T Long, Grant Mincy, and Gary Chartier

Articles:
 * Market Anarchism as Stigmeric Socialism by Brad Spangler
 * Advocates of Freed Markets Should Oppose Capitalismby Gary Chartier
 * Let the Free Market Eat the Rich! by Jeremy Wieland