Anarcho Capitalism vs Crypto Anarchy & Agorism.
Anarcho Capitalism (abbreviated AnCap) is an openly advertised political movement that promotes free markets and an abolition of the state. Most AnCaps will OPENLY tell you they are part of this movement, and it shares many similarities with Libertarians. Libertarians and AnCaps only really differ on should the government run a socialized police force and army.
Crypto Anarchy (also called CypherPunk) is usually a SECRET lifestyle, where one rejects the concept of external government control and instead chooses individual self-sovereignty. This concept of freedom and subverting the power of the state, is often expressed through the use of privacy and encryption technology, cryptocurrencies, and even frequently traveling to other countries with multiple passports to reduce a single government’s control over the individual.
The main difference between Anarcho Capitalism (AnCap) and Crypto Anarchy (CypherPunk) is that AnCaps organize politically to encourage voting, while as Crypto Anarchy involves using technology to subvert the system. This could involve creating code to defy surveillance, trading cryptocurrency without regulations, not using left-wing social media platforms, or even some type of “illegal market” depending on who you ask. Although I personally think drug markets degrades the core philosophies from more wide-spread acceptance. Fearing being oppressed for their actions, CypherPunks place a much greater emphasis on privacy and open source than AnCaps.
The AnCap says to the CypherPunk, “How can you not vote?! We need you!”
The CypherPunk says to the AnCap, “How can you register to vote? You’re telling the NSA where you live?!”
How does Crypto Anarchy differ from Agorism?
Agorism is a general term for economics and a parallel society outside the control of government institutions. Like a CypherPunk, Agoras don’t think the voting will help. Instead of voting, Agorism focuses on individual entrepreneurship to add value to the community and fix yourself first.
Agoras differ from CypherPunks, in that Agoras usually aren’t as tech-savvy, but look to get outside the system through other means, such as growing their own food. For example “Sal the Agorist” is a popular Twitter account promoting gun ownership and growing your own food, but he sells ads for his Twitter account using a Gmail.
So a CypherPunk says to an Agorist “How can you use Big Tech?”
While an Agorist says to a CypherPunk “How can you eat Big Ag?”
Summarize each:
Anarcho Capitalism (AnCap)
Let’s spread the message of freedom through education, and vote to be free.
Logic and reason are the pillars upon which we build objective morality.
Agorism
Society will not change. Using cryptocurrencies we can create a parallel economy and community, to fix ourselves first.
Crypto-Anarchy (CypherPunk)
I was born free, and you can’t stop me from using encryption to stay free. Big Tech is the government’s puppet for surveillance and censorship.
What is the purpose of this? Are you going try to convince me to join?
No, I can’t convince you to become a Crypto Anarchist. You have to self-realize it on your own.
And when you do, DM our bot on Session messenger, with the Session ID: Simple
Love your posts man, keep it up 👍
Oh. Oh my. You just described me. Have some sats.
Ancap voting? Never seen that.
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I don't agree with a few things.
Most AnCaps don't vote. You can't be true ancap if you infect your mind with statist politics.
With libertarians, you described minarchists, who are basically statists who want to yield the most important aspects of society to the state. That is very dangerous. I would first privatize justice and police, not last.
Anarchocapitalism is a moral philosophy. Both agorism and cryptoanarchy are strategies to direct your life towards the moral principles of anarchocapitalism.
Agorism uses counter economies to outcompete the state and make it run out of other people's money.
Cryptoanarchy uses the strategies of anonymity to disappear from the radar of the attackers and thus allows practitioners to live free lives.
You can learn more about how the strategy works here
https://hackyourself.io/2023/10/25/how-privacy-electronic-cash-and-cypherpunk-tech-increase-our-freedom/
Only the first sentence you wrote is a disagreement from the article. Everything else after is in alignment. I suppose we could do a poll if AnCaps vote, but that’d be an ironic thing to vote on
Many ancaps I know are anti-voting hardliners.
Sure I'm sure that exists. But it's a political movement would you agree?
What's the purpose in a political movement if not voting?
I’m not sure all ancaps would agree they are a political movement. Many would say they are antipolitical because their wish is to do away with the state, not co-opt its power. Maybe this is splitting hairs; regardless, the purpose is to do away with the state or make it irrelevant to yourself or your community, not necessarily through voting.
Attempting to get votes is meaningless if you don’t actually change a local critical mass of hearts and minds.
All efforts to remove a structure like the state fail if there aren’t parallel systems.
Most ancaps I know focus more on these two strategies, anyway, whether or not they touch political means.
Ones like me only see parties and politics as useful insofar as they get ideas in front of large amounts of people who are listening, like during election seasons. There’s no actual expectation that there will be enough votes to win an election, only that someone will hear and think.
Having definitions by which individuals MUST identify themselves is so statist. I’ll take your definitions and raise you YES TO ALL. I see no problem with this.
I think we should just think deeply. I agree with many of these, but sometimes the answer is also not use technology so much, and no one will detect you.
I really enjoy your posts. Thank you.
thanks for your time Brypto
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