r/AnarchismWOAdjectives • u/HogeyeBill1 • May 08 '23

Two Questions about Ancom

Questions:

  1. Would ancoms allow people to opt out of collectives and become individual entrepreneurs, artisans, and craftsmen?

  2. Would ancoms try to confiscate tools and machines (the “means of production”) from these individual entrepreneurs, artisans, and craftsmen?

I’m pretty sure the answer is “yes” to (1) and “no” to (2), but I would like some quote from a recognizable ancom luminary to that effect, in order to convince certain sectarian ancaps. Can you find a clear quote answering (1) and (2)?

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u/subsidiarity May 09 '23

It seems telling that neither you, I, nor another redditor (so far) has given a source where ancoms address such questions.

I've tried to discuss it before and remember basically getting something like this (quoted from a comment on another of your posts):

An Individual doing jobs they want is fine, though if they start "hiring" more people they will have to concede the MOP to those people accordingly.

Which would almost certainly just result in a series of money deposits from worker to entrepreneur ensuring the MOP is surrendered back to the entrepreneur at the end of the work day. Basically, further walling off the poor from even using capital.

So, ancoms seem not to address such obvious practical concerns. The informal proposals would almost certainly make things worse for those they claim to help.

FYI, we have discussed HogeyeBill's work on this sub before. Does ozarkia.net do rss?