VoluntaryismVoluntaryism is a variation of Anarcho-Capitalism inhabiting the bottom right of the compass, with no specific cultural implications. It believes in voluntary funding of the state, which end up giving the state no real monopoly over violence, making it basically like any other organisation, and without having the monopoly of violence it can be considered that it seeks for an non-statal society but with a national government.

It puts a direct focus on the philosophy of immorality of starting force in peaceful individuals in an agressive and not-deffensive way.

It is the biggest intelectual influence for Rothbardian Anarchism. It was created in 1897 and is probably one the first full theoretical seen way of achieving a society completely based on liberty and property rights (Probably just preceded by "The production of security" by Gustave de Molinari, in 1849), which fully influenced Anarcho-Capitalism.

Probably the main difference is that Voluntaryism is based in Classical economics while Anarcho-Capitalism is greatly influenced by Austrian economics.

In Benjamin Tucker's words after Auberon Herbet's death: "Auberon Herbert is dead. He was a true anarchist in everything but name. How much better (and how much rarer) to be an anarchist in everything but name than to be an anarchist in name only!"

The term Voluntaryism was created by Auberon Herbert. The term was created first exposed in the book "The principles of Voluntaryism" in 1897.

It believes that the only legitimate government, by the meaning that it has for most Lib-Rights, that isn't the same as the meaning of "State" (State being the monopoly of considered legitimate coaction over the individual), is a government based on voluntary human interactions without any un-voluntary intervention over the individual.

It believes that it is never legitimate to start force against individuals whenever it is not done for defense purposes, and thus see taxes as a form of theft and believe although there can be a government to give these services it must be voluntary to pay those taxes and thus doesn't have a state, which leaves this ideology in the exact (Or almost) the same place than Ancap.

This can be usually used for the same as Anarcho-Capitalism in most cases. Since some Voluntaryists think the term capitalism was first used and created by leftist philosophers in a pejorative way, and prefer to call it Voluntaryism since it represents better the philosophy of a society based on free association without coaction from un-voluntary organisms as a state in this case, and also was created for the precise same meaning that it has right now and with no derogatory connotations.

Drawing Voluntaryism is very simple:

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