They use it in the meaning that many voluntary person-to-person interactions form a market
It may be a market, but not all markets are capitalist. For a market to be capitalist it must be competitive [1].
References
- “Capitalism”. Wikipedia. Accessed: 2024-08-19T00:00Z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism.
Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price systems, private property, property rights recognition, self-interest, economic freedom, meritocracy, work ethic, consumer sovereignty, profit motive, entrepreneurship, commodification, voluntary exchange, wage labor, sustenance and the production of commodities.
Until endless amount of interactions take the same from you as one, all such markets will be competitive. Sorry.
I don’t think that I understand what you are trying to say. Would you mind clarifying what you meant in your comment?
I said voluntary interactions form markets, you said only competitive markets form capitalism, thus voluntarism doesn’t necessarily mean capitalism.
But in real life a market formed by voluntary interactions is competitive, because our time and attention and emotional resource are limited. Even if natural resources, food and such were not.
I would agree that basic principles of ancap do not mean capitalism as leftists describe it. Actually every idea or description of how things would work in ancap involve solutions pretty similar to those left anarchists use.
And since these two ideas have the same set of actual limitations, and leave the same things to personal choice, I’d say there’s no technical difference, only ideological.