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Anarcho-Capitalism is a form of "Neofeudalism"?

AnarchistThoughts@reddit writes:

Ancaps desire nothing but the preservation of private property - in the eyes of the ancap aggression against someone includes the aggression against their property. As a logical conclusion to this concept, the owner has the right to define the rules of how his property is treated, and how a person may act on, or within the bounds of, his property.

Contrary to what many uncaps argue - all land at this point is owned (although they would assert that it's not all justly owned). Ancaps want everyone to have their own homestead, and produce/trade things with their own, or an employees, labor (using money as a medium of trade).

What does this result in? Wealth flows to the land owners -> owners buy up land -> owners build greater wealth. What happens to those who cannot afford land? They rent from the owners, the same class of people they must work for in order to afford that rent.

In the ancap system, the owner makes the rules of how people may behave on his land, i.e: no renters rights, except for their ability to go to an equally exploitative owner.

Now to answer your question: How is this neofeudalism?

The owner acts as the king of his land, he has complete control over how people may behave on his property. Due to the structure, the king will endeavor to expand his empire, which includes productive enterprises - housing to rent, productive industry, and trade. The poor have no option but to labor in these industries, so that they may pay rent to the king.

The private security force acts the knights, who uphold the rules which the king defines. These rules are, of course, structured in favor of the king, and maintain the king's dominion.

The peasantry are the workers. They labor for the king so that they may pay rent to live on his land.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateAnarchism/comments/2kn0ul/what_do_people_mean_when_they_say_that/