2023-08-14 14:24:59
Barcelona An anarcho-capitalist could be the next president of Argentina. The leader of the coalition Freedom Advances, Javier Milei, has won this Sunday’s primary elections against all odds and is shaping up to be the favorite in next October’s general elections. The cries of “Freedom, freedom, freedom!” of his followers make it clear the gluttony with traditional politics that has elevated this economist and outsider of the policy that now sets course for the Casa Rosada. But what ideology is behind it? What is anarcho-capitalism and why is it extreme right?
Javier Milei defines himself as “anarcho-capitalist, because the state is the enemy”. He himself says that he has weighed this ideology because “we have to be realistic and down to earth”, so he only accepts that the state serves “for security and justice”. But for pure anarcho-syndicalism, an economic ideology that arose in the middle of the 20th century, the fundamental principle of “law and order” rests on the dogma of “private property and the free market”, without any intervention of the been It would be a society similar to that of the Wild West of the United States, where even justice and law enforcement arose from private initiatives. The free market brought to the maximum expression.
On the road to this radical privatization and liberalization, Milei has unabashedly argued that selling and trafficking organs should even be considered a commercial transaction: “It’s just another market.” “My first property is my body, why shouldn’t I be able to dispose of my body?” he said in a controversial interview in which he proposed “looking for market mechanisms” to manage organ transplants. He even applies the principle of private property to justify his opposition to abortion, and rather the only case in which he would allow it. “I agree with abortion when the mother’s life is in danger. The baby is another person. If someone comes to steal your house and your life is in danger you resort to force. Your property is in danger . It’s the same when a mother is in this danger: I agree with it because there is a conflict of ownership, which would be the mother’s body.”
The economic theory of anarcho-capitalism defends that there are three great principles: private property, law and order, and the principle of non-aggression. Violence, therefore, would be prohibited in this ideology, which considers, however, that taxes, fraud and theft are violence. Within this theory, then, human rights have no place: individual rights are based entirely and completely on the right to private property.
Milei has also once been called “the Argentine Trump”, and he certainly has points of connection, such as populism that tries to profit from public anger by pointing out the political elites as guilty or, in the Argentine case, ” the political caste”. A cry that in Spain the left capitalized with the 15-M movement, but that Milei vociferates from the opposite end, from neoliberalism. The main difference with Trump, however, is the protectionist bias that his “make America great again” had and that even led the former US president to a trade war that put limits on the free market on a global scale.
The US Republican Party’s aversion to the state might bring it closer to this current, but some conservative and militaristic principles push it away. one of the think tanks that most advocate concepts close to anarcho-capitalism, the Cato Institute, is financed by one of the biggest donors to the Republican cause, the billionaire Charles Koch, one of germans Koch. This ideology has also been attributed to some of the defenders of cryptocurrencies and total freedom on the internet.
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