Interesting article.

Just curious, have you ever met an anarchist in his or her 40s?

In terms of  philosophy you are absolutely correct:

ANARCHY means no ruler, you do not have any ruler but neither you are your own ruler. on the other hand you should call yourself an AUTARCHIST.

AUTARCHIST means you rule only over yourself.

in practical terms, we, the anarchist use this term because most of the free thinkers identify themselves with anarchy and very few even know the term of AUTARCHISM or they confuse it with AUTOCRACY which is the  complete opposite. however no matter the word you use to identify yourself, you are a free thinker and this makes you a great person who loves freedom.

M8 I just made a post about anarchist capitalism not being anarchist check it out you might like it

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A communist complaining about words like "ownership" and "labor" spends his/her own time on his/her own device writing an article to submit to a site where he/she can earn money from other people for that content. 

You've earned nearly $300 by complaining about things that have given you the opportunity to earn that $300 - property and labor. 

Excellent post on the absurdities and contradictions of communist ideology! I hope that was the intent!

> No, I do not "own myself." It is not possible for myself or any other person or entity to "own" me, because I am not a piece of property. 

I think we disagree. For clarity the claim I'd make is: You own your body. In that sentence the 'You' refers to what I loosely call the animating intelligence, that's whatever component or system, in a human, that exhibits intentionality - that's the thing that can be a property owner. The brain has a much closer relationship to 'You' than does your little finger. Though both are parts of your body, and are (I claim) owned by 'You'.

'Your body' includes the physical substrate that 'You' (the animating intelligence) emerges from.

And 'Own' means that you have the exclusive right to determine how the physical stuff that makes up your body may be used. For instance, you (and you alone) have the right to decide who else - if anyone - gets to use your spleen, and how.

Property is just a thing that belongs to someone. It implies rights, that others cannot violate.

Do you agree that that we are material things? We are, by the definitions of those words. Do you agree that we have the rights implied by the word "property" (to use it as you see fit, and that others generally do not have the right to seize or damage your property, and this applies to yourself as well)?

I personally am unconcerned if the word seems 'dehumanising' as long as the meaning fits and it is practically useful and true to see ourselves as our own property.

To own something is to take responsibility for it. You take responsibility for your actions which your body, which is a material thing,  caused to happen, by the decisions made in your head, upon contemplation of your thoughts and feelings, yes? If you take responsibility for all of that then in essence you own it.

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Well said. And now for the real question:
How do we implement this gobally, given the current state of society?

Do we buy an island and expand from there?
Can the system be changed by education and bottom-up revolution?
Do we play by the rules and destroy it from within?

Another ancom self-conflicting confused person.

Go be autonomous in a cave somewhere, without trading or interacting with anyone. Because even when you are posting here, you are conflicting with yourself. 

You own your body as well as you own your labor. You made your labor  of posting this article a capitalistic commodity to trade. In a Capitalistic free market of content and ideas.  And congrats, you got 62 votes and $28 paid to you for your labor in this marketplace. That's the value of your post and your labor. And no one have forced you for it. There is no violence or threat involved. :D

I think you're just arguing semantics. While I agree that the meaning of words is important and their misuse can lead to dangerous ideas, I don't think this is the most important fight to be had.

This is a reply to @ats-david, because @lukestokes is not a body, not a piece of property, and so I can refer to anyone, such as @demotruk, because @bacchist will not be marketed. Since @ats-david will not claim that which it is not possible to claim without a what (a body), his - pardone - @demotruk... since [who] will not claim [who] steemit money, the $187.36+ via the extension into the future of marketable votes shall be absorbed back into the steemit system, by which the entity, steemit, shall continue physical existence by means of digital and electronic inhabitation across various computers and databases.

I accept @demotruk [who] [who] who (who)'s lack of acceptance of his - pardone - [who's] physical body, being inseperable from [], such that conversation is rendered utterly impossible, and yet there are these *fine selection of bridges*, which [] must also reject per the rejection of a marketable body of physical or mental substance such that marketability can occur.

Oh wait. You are your autonomy?

I accept autonomy's ... rejection of having a... what.... 

Fuck this.

You made me do all this labor after you did all that labor writing that shit... oh, right, right: "activity". You made me do this activity after you did that activity...

Your brain must explode on a daily basis from all that goddamn activity.

You should remove your post so that your activity is not used for marketing as it currently is... to the tune of $187.36.

This site is a coercive capitalist place, per your definitions. Why are you still here? You are being exploited, and soon you'll have exploited enough to exploit others by giving them money in exchange for things like food and water.

You prick!, he said lovingly...

I sort of agree with this. Property one owns can be sold. People can't sell themselves, because they can never give up their own autonomy. They can receive money for agreeing to do what someone else says, but that's not a sale.

Capitalism is not a "mode of production". Capitalism is a means of disseminating production that does occur on a voluntary basis.

Labor is work,  work is "activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result."  

Way to make a distinction without a difference.

"It is true that under the wages system, the individual is not free to choose permanent unemployment. But no other imaginable social system could grant him a right to unlimited leisure; that man cannot avoid submitting to the disutility of labor (work) is not an outgrowth of any social institution. It is an inescapable natural condition of human life and conduct"
Ludwig Von Mises

Strippers are the perfect example of the fact that each person is their own currency. The fact that people throw money at women who behave seductively is a perfect example of being your own Labor.