Anarcho-conservatism is a political ideology that combines elements of anarchism and conservatism, advocating for a society without a state while maintaining traditional values and social norms.
It emphasizes individual freedom and voluntary associations, often opposing state intervention in personal and cultural matters.
Anarcho-Conservatism, or Conservative Anarchism, shortened to AnCon, is an ideology occupying a variable position in bottom two quadrants that advocates for a stateless society that upholds Traditional values and respects traditional hierarchies.
The term 'conservative anarchism' has been used in regard to a number of Religious Anarchists who support conservative cultural doctrines and norms out of religious belief. The core of these types of thinkers have been Fundamentalist Christians.
The term was later used again in a similar sense to describe the Old Right Libertarian author Albert Jay Nock, who favoured a form of Philosophical Anarchism while also being a staunch supporter of Classical Liberalism, believing the so-called ' Liberalism' of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a betrayal of the doctrine. Nock was the first person to use the term ' libertarian' within a right-wing context.
One of the most well-known supporters of this type of Anarcho-Conservatism is the German economist of the Austrian school of economics, Hans-Hermann Hoppe. One of Hoppe's central points is that the 'traditional bourgeois family life' is one of the historically best and most prosperous lifestyles (as well as the best for the continual sustenance of a libertarian social order) which should be encouraged, especially via ostracism, employing covenant communities which may exclude those who violate common values. Hoppe believes that the existance of this lifestyle allows the existance of other lifestyles and therefore 'deviants' should not be aggressive towards those who share the bourgeois lifestyle:
"All other people, by and large, only imitated what they had invented and constructed first. All others inherited the knowledge embodied in the inventors’ products for free. And isn’t it the typical white hierarchical family household of father, mother, their common children and prospective heirs, and their ‘bourgeois’ conduct and lifestyle — i.e., everything the Left disparages and maligns — that is the economically most successful model of social organization the world has ever seen, with the greatest accumulation of capital goods (wealth) and the highest average standards of living? And isn’t it only on account of the great economic achievements of this minority of ‘victimizers’ that a steadily increasing number of ‘victims’ could be integrated and partake in the advantages of a worldwide network of the division of labour?"
Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Getting Libertarianism Right (2018)
A political philosophy and ideology that combines anarchist politics and conservative values. Anarcho-conservatism opposes the state and all government control, while supporting social conservative policies. Anarcho-conservatives advocate the abolition of the state and the wholesale replacement of state law by moral laws. Differently from social anarchists and individualist anarchists, anarcho-conservatives don't oppose all authority, but in consonance with them, they oppose the authority of the modern nation state, which they deem artificial.
For instance, conservative anarchists might oppose drug use and pornography, on moral grounds, while at the same time opposing their prohibition through government. This absolute rejection of the state legislation is what differentiates anarcho-conservatism from libertarianism conservatism.
As conservatives typically do, conservative anarchists support traditional family structures and, much like all right-libertarian orientations, support gun and property rights. These however take a backseat to traditional and religious morality, if a conflict between them arises.
In particular, this differentiates anarcho-conservatism from anarcho-capitalism.
Like all libertarians, conservative anarchists oppose state coercion, and like all right-libertarians, they don't oppose natural, traditional or socioeconomic hierarchies.
In fact, they typically welcome them. Anarcho-conservatism has much in common with paleolibertarianism, except for the support of right wing populists in political elections.
Anarcho-conservatism is closely associated with libertarian conservatism and anarcho-capitalism.Writing in the World Policy Journal, NYU professor James Nolt noted that anarcho-conservatism is becoming "increasingly fashionable."
https://discoursesonliberty.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/images-of-freedom-anarchism-and-conservatism-the-inevitability-of-anarcho-conservatism/
https://c4ss.org/content/53268--- I disagree with this article on not letting the State to defend the right of the developing fetuses life. Other than that great article.
https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2019/09/why-arent-there-more-conservative-anarchists-on-recovering-a-consistent-philosophy-of-conservative-anti-statism/
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/why-true-conservatism-means-anarchy/
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2001/07/daniel-mccarthy/anarcho-conservatism/
https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/minarchists-anarchists-in-libertarian-history
