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Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Stefan Molyneux examines criticisms of anarcho-capitalism, focusing on the relationship between property rights and state power. He challenges concerns about privatization, arguing it can improve public goods access and maintenance. Molyneux addresses the moral implications of coercively funded public resources and argues for voluntary resolution of social issues. He dismisses fears of mini-tyranny in property rights enforcement and advocates for governance based on consent and personal responsibility, encouraging a reexamination of societal structures.

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0:00.0	All righty, righty. This is Defemone, you from Free Domain.
0:03.0	And this is an old Reddit, Arsk-ask philosophy from 10 years ago.
0:11.0	Interesting to see these criticisms. I appreciate them.
0:15.0	One of the main criticisms of ANCAps, this is anarcho-capitalism. This is a private property,
0:20.0	stateless society.
0:21.6	One of the main criticisms of ANCAPS from a standard anarchist perspective is simply their views on property.
0:26.9	Getting rid of the state apparatus without getting rid of property, simply speaking, is privatizing the state.
0:33.7	Yeah, so we hear there's a lot.
0:35.3	Privatizing the state is a contradiction in terms.
0:38.3	It's like turning rape into lovemaking.
0:46.3	Right? It doesn't make any sense.
0:50.3	Privatizing the state.
0:51.3	The state initiates the use of force and controls your property, pretty much it will and it win. So privatizing the state. The state initiates the use of force and controls your property.
0:55.6	Pretty much it will and it will.
0:57.4	So privatizing the state is a privatizing is one of these things where, you know, it's public versus private goods.
1:04.9	So when people talk about private goods, they think that it's inaccessible to them. When they talk about public goods,
1:13.5	they think that those goods are accessible to them. Right. And that's not really the case.
1:22.4	So you say privatize. Oh, the road is going to be privatized. Well, formally, I could just go on the road
1:28.1	and use the road and everything would be fine. Now, if it's privatized, I cannot get on the road,
1:36.5	I cannot have access to the road, I cannot use the road. So when the word privatizing comes in,
1:44.1	what most people perceive or experience, or fantasize,
1:49.0	is that something will now be inaccessible to them.
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