Anarchists attack squad cars at police HQ

I know what socialism and state capitalism and "laissez faire capitalism" are and I agree with Rothbard and Mises on the necessity of a rational efficient economic system with property and trade as the fundamental basis, but we disagree on semantics, and I think it's important to not revive dead words when communicating something. "Capitalism" now means state control of everything. When you say "capitalism" people are going to believe you're talking about U.S. economic policy.

Oh, I agree with you completely that people confuse state capitalism for capitalism. I personally like to refer to myself as a voluntaryist. I find it sad though that people have no understanding of capitalism, and i want to educate them on the differences of state cap and ancap. Its as if the mere mention of the word capitalism sets off some faith based anger in them. I think that using the word capitalism and discussing state capitalism can hopefully encourage people to research the difference

So next time you educate someone on economics just call it voluntaryism instead of capitalism. The word "capitalism" conjures up progressive era cartoon images of fat giant industrialists squashing some little guy.

I agree with you it does conjure up fat cat images for most. However, once you start to explain the ideals of capitalism vs state cap it gets people thinking that they may not understand their criticism of "capitalism". I hate having to invent new terms just because of close-minded people. To me Anarcho-capitalism is redundant. Any other form of cap is a version of state capitalism. I think we can still use the term capitalism and explain how it will prevent fat cats from ruling the world.

I am not trying to revive the word capitalism. I am trying to explain the difference between laissez faire capitalism and state capitalism. This would be no different than explaining the different forms of socialism. The problem is most of the general populace is so dumbed down that they don't even know there are different forms of each.