anarcho-capitalism

noun

Etymology

From anarcho- + capitalism. Earliest extant attestation is in American author Karl Hess's essay “The Death of Politics”, originally published by Playboy, in March 1969. Even though American economist Murray Rothbard is credited with coining this word, its first possible appearance among his writings is in his 1971 essay “Know Your Rights”, published two years after Hess's essay.

  1. derived from *kap-
  2. derived from *káput
  3. borrowed from capitalisme — “the condition of one who is rich
  4. prefixed as anarcho-capitalism — “anarcho + capitalism

Definitions

  1. A political and economic philosophy that advocates the elimination of the state and other…

    A political and economic philosophy that advocates the elimination of the state and other coercive institutions in favour of individual self-ownership, voluntary society, and free market.

  2. A political and socioeconomic system that ostensibly recognizes only individual…

    A political and socioeconomic system that ostensibly recognizes only individual self-ownership, voluntary society, and free market but not the state and other coercive institutions.

    • The second was shock therapy. Implemented briefly in the aftermath of the Soviet collapse, shock therapy aimed to construct a free market in post-communist Russia. It produced instead a species of mafia-dominated anarcho-capitalism.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for anarcho-capitalism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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