Of course it’s larger, ancap is from 1960s.
If you only read Rothbard and his ilk, it did. But just like Marxism had thousands of years of proto-projects and inspiration, the thought behind Ancap has been around in practice for centuries.
So non-ancap nations influenced by ancap count?
The only countries to be ideologically pure in anything have been hellscapes, so I’d say being inspired is probably the best example you can get.
I guess you won’t call cryptocurrencies a success of ancap ideology.
You literally had to recreate centralized exchanges for crypto to succeed, and through that, you rebuilt everything that’s wrong with traditional currency but transferred the control from democracies to private citizens.
If you only read Rothbard and his ilk, it did. But just like Marxism had thousands of years of proto-projects and inspiration, the thought behind Ancap has been around in practice for centuries.
Not that much. Maybe Catholic distributivism and, eh, early USA.
The only countries to be ideologically pure in anything have been hellscapes, so I’d say being inspired is probably the best example you can get.
OK, then it’s hard for me to draw a border between something being ancap-inspired and generally right-liberal. Ancap is extreme voluntarism. The name is wrong, it’s not about capitalism, but capitalism results from it.
You literally had to recreate centralized exchanges for crypto to succeed, and through that, you rebuilt everything that’s wrong with traditional currency but transferred the control from democracies to private citizens.
I didn’t mean that as an achievement of ancap, it’s an utter (mostly technical, but still) failure. Just that it’s clearly influenced by that ideology.
Maybe cypherpunks (partially).
