- Anarchists depict themselves as purists, who are more consistent because they purportedly carry their principles to their logical conclusion. But to what principle(s) is anarchism really loyal?
- As has already been seen, anarcho-capitalist theory cannot be based on loyalty to the free market, since the system it proposes would not constitute such a market at all. Indeed, the anarcho-capitalist proposal only obscures the free-market concept.
- Nor can the theory be upheld on the basis of a greater loyalty to individual rights, since such rights (including the right to self-defense) are already fully observed by the limited-government system proposed here.
- The only remaining so-called "principle" to which anarcho-capitalism might be said to be loyal is the idea of minimizing the size and function of government. Minimizing government, however, is not the moral principle from which freedom derives. Rather, minimization is an effect that happens to loom large in our view, as we are accustomed to dealing with powerful, bloated states. Freedom is concerned primarily, not with minimizing government per se, but instead with reorienting the actions of all individuals and organizations, including governments, in accordance with the individual rights to life, liberty and property. The battle for freedom is not simply a campaign against government. Rather, it is a repudiation of the idea that anyone has the right to subjugate another person to his or her own value scale through the initiation of force.
- As has already been seen, anarcho-capitalist theory cannot be based on loyalty to the free market, since the system it proposes would not constitute such a market at all. Indeed, the anarcho-capitalist proposal only obscures the free-market concept.
