To me Anarchism is simple: it is the act of questioning and dismantling systems of Authority. I don't believe Anarchism is a political position and I don't believe it is an ideology in a traditional sense of the word "ideology." I believe that Anarchism is the tradition of rejecting authority, a tradition as old as humanity itself.

When it comes to discussions of the State, AnCaps are true Anarchists. Ancaps study, criticize, and ultimately reject the authority of the State. Ancaps apply the Anarchist tradition too the State. I am truly however perplexed as to why Ancaps do not apply the Anarchist tradition to other forms of Authority.

Let's take the obvious example of wage labor. A boss is in a position of Athority over his workers. As Anarchists we should discuss, criticize, and act to dismantle the institution of wage labor. Before you say it, yes I do recognize that wage labor is voluntary. We are all on the same page about that. I do agree that voluntary hierarchy is morally superior compared to involuntary hierarchy. We are also all on the same page about that. But it doesn't follow from the fact that wage labor is voluntary that we as Anarchists should embrace it. The fact that wage labor is a voluntary rather than involuntary form of hierarchy should inform how we combat it but we absolutely still should apply the Anarchist tradition of studying, criticizing, and challenging the wage labor system. I agree with the NAP principle that violence should only be used in self defense. When we try to dismantle State power it may be justified to use violence because the state uses violence. Otherwise I always believe that non violent tactics should be employed when confronting systems of authority. I think the best way of dismantling the wage labor system would be to build an economic counter culture to compete with it. We should organize worker co-ops as a libertarian-egalitarian alternative to the authoritarian hierarchies found in companies which use a wage labor system.

I get the sense that Ancaps believe anyone arguing against wage labor would use unjustified violence to combat it. But that is not at all true. The other problem I see with AnCaps is that they have defined Capitalism to be moral apriori. Ancaps have defined the Axioms of capitalism to be moral and thus they don't feel willing to reexamine the outcomes of capitalism. All Anarchists have different conceptions about which economic system produces the least violence and the most voluntary cooperation. But we as Anarchists need to be flexible enough in our ideologies that we can always apply the Anarchist tradition of questioning Authority where we see it even if that Authority has arisen from an economic system which we believed was inherently anti-Athoritarian. I am not here to give capitalism specifically a hard time, this criticism that anarcho-capitalists are unwilling to examine if aspects of capitalism might be authoritarian is equally applicable to anarcho-socialists who are not willing to examine if aspects of socialism could be authoritarian. I think Ancaps need to get away from the childish paradigm that Capitalism is inherently anarchistic and socialism inherently statist. Nothing is inherently anarchistic exept the practice of questioning and challenging authority and no economic system should be spared from the chopping block. I am not advocating abandoning elements of capitalist economics which are liberating and anti-authoritarian. I am just saying that we can't define capitalism as being synonymous with Anarchism because capitalism is an economic system and no economic system is guaranteed to be perfectly anti-authoritarian forever and Anarchism is a flexible ever-evolving tradition of breaking down systems of authority as best as possible day by day.

In conclusion: I am not advocating violence against companies that use wage labor, but I do believe that we Anarchists need to discuss and analyze the nature of the wage labor system. And if we conclude the obvious, that the wage labor system is authoritarian because it subjects workers to the authority of a boss, then this anarchist subredit should embrace with full enthusiasm a peaceful anti-wage labor counterculture. That would be a worthy manifestation of the Anarchist tradition. But I see so many Ancaps embrace wage labor either because they think the only means of opposing it are violent (which is blatantly untrue) or because wage labor is permitted by capitalist axioms. And this is the fatal mistake most Ancaps make, they define Anarchism as Capitalism and then they feel obligated to embrace any outcome of capitalist axioms. I am proposing a new more flexible version of AnarchoCapitalism, one which embraces the parts of capitalism which are liberating but also advocates a peaceful counterculture against the trends in capitalism which are not liberating. Right now I feel that AnarchoCapitalism puts the Anarchist tradition in the service of the Capitalist economic system, what I want is for a new reversed AnarchoCapitalism which places the capitalist economic system in service of the Anarchist tradition.