But it’s not just the way LLs define “capitalism” that poses a problem; it’s also the way LLs seek to go about dismantling capitalism.

I don’t think anyone – market socialist, anarcho-communist, Marxist, etc. – denies that capitalism requires a strong state apparatus in order to function. What we disagree on is the notion that merely dismantling the government and creating a free market in its place would ultimately give labor power over capital (which tends to be what many LLs have in mind).

Ideology is live-practice. Most of us practice subordination to bosses and other hierarchical figures in the workplace every day – why would this go away immediately if the government were to disappear?

There are hierarchical relations and separation of workers from management/means of production in actually existing free markets as well. A very good example are pimps/madams and other bosses who engage in modern-day slavetrading. Pimps are not protected by governments yet remain in control of prostituted women – why?

Farmers who hire undocumented immigrants illegally maintain control of their fields without government there to protect them – why?

See what I mean?