Рыночные анархисты и анархо-социалисты: Можем ли мы быть вместе?

Private-Property Anarchists and Anarcho-Socialists: Can We Get Along?

All anarchists have in common the desire to eliminate the initiation of aggression as a legitimate form of social interaction. The difference between private-property anarchists and anarcho-socialists most often lies in what each group considers to be aggression. I will attempt to demonstrate that, from a market anarchist point of view, there are two distinct types of anarcho-socialists: the "good" ones, who are willing to live in peace with market anarchist communities, and the "bad" ones, who are not. I recognize that anarcho-socialists of the second type will believe that I have gotten my designations of "good" and "bad" exactly backwards. But then, I'm one of the private-property anarchists with whom they can't get along, so what do they expect from me?

Because of the importance to my distinction of the question, "What, exactly, constitutes aggression?" I will begin by attempting to demonstrate that one mode of understanding any human interaction is its relative location between two polar ideal types: persuasion and aggression. In what follows, I will always use the word "persuasion," unmodified by any adjective, to mean honest persuasion. (An earlier version of this dichotomy was presented on LewRockwell.com. Since that article appeared, Jan Lester has convinced me that where I originally had used "coercion," I should have used "aggression" instead. You can see his book, Escape from Leviathan, for some of his reasoning in this regard.)

When engaging in persuasion, I attempt to convince you that your situation will be better, in your own eyes, if we do interact than it will be if we do not. For example, suppose that you and I each live on our own isolated island, with only the other person's island within sight. Further, we will imagine that neither of us can reach the other's island due to the shark-infested waters in between. We might each go about our business on our own island undisturbed by the existence of the other person. However, we happen to meet one day when each of us is at the edge of his island closest to the other person's. While we chat, I mention to you that there are many coconut trees on my island, but that I'm getting sick of eating coconuts. You respond that on your island, there the mango trees are numerous, and that you are fed up with eating mangoes. After talking things over, we agree that every day, around the same time, we will meet at this same spot. I'll bring a few coconuts and you will bring some mangoes. We will trade by tossing them to each other across the water. It is obvious that each of us prefers our interaction to its absence, since it is trivially easy for either of us to avoid interacting at all. I am perfectly willing to leave you alone if you are uninterested in what I can offer you, and vice versa.