[quote=@catchamber] My issue with this scenario, and the American Revolution incidents in the higher quote, are that the workers are forcibly and illegally taking away property. It's one thing to say you're going to create a new society that's based on voluntary transactions, and another to say that while you're basically stealing property from others. [/quote] Ultimately what all revolutions lead to is the "theft" of property of one power and the redistribution of it to another. Whether that be to the people or the parties that backed your revolution in the first place. The very act of revolution is as much theft as war is murder. It's just what happens when these things occur. From a Right-Libertarian perspective and AnCap perspective, all welfare and taxes is theft as much as paying for public services. So really, the theft point is moot because however you look at it even what we do in the modern liberal democratic country is stealing from one class of people to give things to another, this usually boiling down to building an army, paying for schools, building and maintaining roads, train stations, airports, and dockyards, sewage, electrical, and medicine, and scientific grants to kick-start programs in any science of engineering field. But we're willing - as a majority - to re-brand taxation and fees as theft because it goes to some greater good, like Robin Hood stealing from the rich to give to the poor. The empowered pay in the most because they got the most to boost the less empowered to equalize society in welfare programs, and the whole rest of us pay out in income taxes, millages, and property taxes to pay for local, state, or federal services. At it isn't a voluntary exchange like going to a story to buy an apple: it's a required obligation to pay into nation building and maintenance.