In further answer to the last post in this community,William Gillis has brought us the Market Anarchy Series of pamphlets. (Introducing The Market Anarchy Series)
The state of Market Anarchist propaganda has been pretty dismal. Despite a ton of resources on the internet, there are few books, pamphlets and articles available in the real world. And--
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That said, even "anarcho-capitalism", when consistently applied, is anti-capitalist. By the historical definition typically used by anarchists, capitalism is an economic system in which the government favors capital (and its owners) over the other factors of production, land and labor. Principled anarcho-capitalists recognize and oppose this meddling.
If a private entity acts to maintain elite control through the use of force and fraud (the only way to do it, really), then it's not really a private entity at all. As you note, it's a government, or at least an attempt at one. However, this is still an improvement, in my opinion. The appearance of popular control where none exists is a bad thing, not a good thing. If this illusion is dropped, the legitimacy of the governing entity disappears with it. Such groups would be widely seen as the criminal gangs that you and I already know governments to be.
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But this isn't what the (consistent) anarcho-capitalists are proposing. If you take a look at the first pamphlet, it contains some of Rothbard's thoughts on when it is appropriate to confiscate capitalist property. Agorists take this even further, presenting a strategy for popular expropriation.
As for whether non-usufruct productive property could exist in this context, I don't see why not. It seems like a consensus that equal people could reasonably come to.
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