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I haven't read thoroughly through Shawn's notion of "market anarchism", but it's pretty clear to me that the means of exchanges of goods that predominated among native societies in what used to be North America could be called "market anarchism". It was a mixture of bartering and gift economy, where value was hardly ever *fixed* and always up to negotiation. There was also, like still today in some areas of the world, a relative absence of arbitrary controls on the goods being traded. So yeah, it's market anarchism all the way. Could be related to some capitalist interests, but that's missing the point of how capitalism, as a system, needs government controls to work. Ancaps still don't get this, but I wonder if anticaps do?

How's that relevant to today's anarchism? Well, extremely relevant, as this incurs a balance in your options for sustenance (and also enjoyment) with material goods, at least, but may also open up to freeing yourself from the colonial monetary system that includes wage slavery and dependence on property. Like not every poor mom is ready to go dumpster dive and much less are for lifting food

Lifting and dumpstering aren't enough... it's good at an individual and communal level, but to turn these means into something that creates autonomy for everyone involved, people need freely-accessible markets where value has been negated (and hopefully all the shitty packaging burned).

Like free fridges are a more important trend than you think, and deserve to keep being supported. In the areas I know they mostly got shut down by bureaucracies, and shutdown was accelerated by the Covid Death Cult. It's the infrastructure stoopid! Even the Inhabit crowd agrees on that.

(I am neither Makhno or Shawn, btw)