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RE: What Rights Do You Have?
Interesting. I also classify myself as a voluntaryist anarchist, but I take a different view on land ownership, competition, and resource allocation.
I think that communities like what you are talking about (where land and resources are shared) could exist and prosper in a voluntaryist society, and, at the same time, so could competitive, capitalist markets. To me, land ownership makes sense, and there is nothing inherent about ownership or competition that is damaging to people or to communities, or even to the environment. It is, as you say, the corporatism that ruins everything. But not because it's competitive--because it's monopolistic.
I was kind of lightly hinting at the capability of both ideas coexisting in my previous response, I should have made that more clear.
I absolutely agree that both communities could exist together, and could even work in collusion in some instances.
Corporatism creates competition, competition divides people and makes them take sides in order to defend the successes of their team. If competition is equal then it is not competition it's equal exchange.
Capitalism does not inherently create competition, though it can be an aspect of capitalism when extortion comes into play. Capitalism allows for equal exchange to flow freely in a free market, but standards can be enforced which cause an unequal exchange at certain levels and then competition takes place as you fight to do better than the other in any exchange.
I don't necessarily support capitalism, but I also know it's not a demon needing exorcised.