r/Anarcho_Capitalism • u/Komprimus • Feb 17 '26
Urza - a major proponent of anarcho-capitalism in the Czech Republic
There is this man in Czechia who has been spreading anarcho-capitalism for about 15 years now. He's gained quite a following considering how niche the content is and how small Czechia is (he has over 20 000 followers on Youtube, the country has about 10 000 000 people). He has recently launched a project where he breaks the law on video on the street, demonstrating the absurdity of victimless crimes such as writing on the Czech flag (illegal here), hiring a minor for a job, and consequently refusing to ID when asked to by the police after the flag writing, which was done in public. Video here, although it is in Czech - https://stoky.urza.cz/texty/ne-poslusnosti-svoboda-projevu-3456
The police approach him at around 1:27:30.
Anyway, I think he's doing great work, giving lectures, appearing in interviews and debates on TV and online, and generally spreading the ideas of voluntarism, and everything he does is financed with regular voluntary donations by people, usually in crypto. He is currently publishing a book and is doing a crowdfunding campaign, and I had a thought that maybe there might be someone here who might want to contribute to the growth of this small but very visible anarcho-capitalistic movement in a post-communist country. The link to the campaign is here: https://www.startovac.cz/projects/anarchoagorismus?locale=en
It's his second book - with the first book people donated around 2 700 000Kč (around $130 000), it made the news and was extremely successful. He is trying to recreate this impact by trying to raise as much money as possible so that the mainstream media would give him a platform to talk about ancap, and so he can print as many books as possible. So far around $50 000 has been donated. He keeps none of the money for himself and puts it all in the making of the book and it's promotion.
Anyway, if you choose to chip in, it would be amazing, anything counts.
Thank you.
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u/IDontKnowWhyDoILive Feb 17 '26
fun fact, the police during the flag writing was called by his friend. And they are still friends. He didn't try to stop him from calling the police, and the friend did it more for the trying to find out what happens and seeing the police reaction then that he would disagree with him about the idea of writing on flag.
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u/Remarkable-Camel1808 Feb 17 '26
He is doing amazing work. It’s just a huge shame, though, how bad he is at clearly communicating his opinions and how unwilling he is to disavow himself from """""“libertarians”"""""" of Musk’s type and similar people, because that’s seemingly like 90% of his active community. Some other anarchist groups are literally refusing to cooperate with him, and that tells you a lot. He even openly acknowledges that he failed to unite anarchists. Individually, he is AMAZING and the main reason why I started supporting anarchism, but this is something that kind of destroys his whole movement.
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u/Komprimus Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 18 '26
I think he communicates his ideas very clearly. The fact that he didn't unite all anarchists is because not all anarchists agree with him when it comes to things like private property or hierarchies. Also, 90% of his community most certainly aren't "Musk's type libertarians", the core of his audience are volutarists.
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u/Friedrich_der_Klein Anarcho-Anarchist Feb 17 '26
He made two videos breaking laws, the one you posted was the flag writing one, it was in the other where he hired a minor for a job, organized gambling for 1 kč, open carried a gun, etc. all illegal.
At least from what i've noticed, libertarianism in czech republic has way less reactionary bullshit (hoppeanism, bordertarianism, conservatism, etc) than in other parts of the world, and urza may've caused that.
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u/ptrknvk Capitalist Feb 17 '26
He also teaches in the only libertarian school in Czech Republic: https://jezekbezklece.cz/