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Uh, yeah, I know.
What about that was unclear?
I do apologize. Obviously when you ignore the parts of anarchism, which are not socialist, then all of anarchism is socialist. I overread it and should have known better.
AnCap is an oxymoron.
ancap is American chuuni – 14 year olds being edgy
Okay, I don't want to antagonise you unnecessarily. My snarky tone was because it sounded like you were promoting an ancap ideology, but your profile tells me I was wrong about that. Personally if I bring up any ideology that I consider harmful like ancap, I am very careful to frame it as something I disagree with.
It does seem like you're saying that I'm making a truism, like I've constrained my definition of anarchism artificially so that it excludes certain kinds. If that's what you're saying, I don't think that's true. I think the concept of ancapism is based on the notion that anarchy means "no rules", which is not true. Anarchy means "no rulers", which is a very, very different thing. If an ideology is indifferent to the emergence of quasi feudal states and warlords, as ancapism is, then it fails on the first test of even ideologically opposing the one thing anarchism is against.
Here's a very good writeup on how even Murray Rothbard, the originator of right-"libertarianism" or "anarcho"-capitalism concluded that his ideas were not anarchist: https://www.anarchistfaq.org/afaq/blog/rothbard-not-anarchists.html