"anarcho-capitalism" meaning in English

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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. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|anarcho|capitalism}} anarcho- + capitalism Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} anarcho-capitalism (uncountable)
  1. (politics, economics) 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. Tags: uncountable Translations (philosophy that advocates the elimination of the state and a self-regulating free market): لاسلطوية رأسمالية (Arabic), анархокапитализъм (anarhokapitalizǎm) [masculine] (Bulgarian), anarcocapitalisme [masculine] (Catalan), 無政府資本主義 /无政府资本主义 (wúzhèngfǔ zīběnzhǔyì) (Chinese Mandarin), anarchokapitalismus [masculine] (Czech), anarkokapitalisme [common-gender] (Danish), anarchokapitalisme [neuter] (Dutch), anarki-kapitalismo (Esperanto), anarkikapitalismo (Esperanto), anarhokapitalism (Estonian), anarkokapitalismi (Finnish), anarcho-capitalisme [masculine] (French), ანარქო-კაპიტალიზმი (anarko-ḳaṗiṭalizmi) (Georgian), Anarchokapitalismus [masculine] (German), αναρχοκαπιταλισμός (anarchokapitalismós) [masculine] (Greek), אנרכו־קפיטליזם [masculine] (Hebrew), anarkio-kapitalismo (Ido), anarko kapitalisme (Indonesian), anarcocapitalismo [masculine] (Italian), anarco-capitalismo [masculine] (Italian), 無政府資本主義 (Japanese), 아나코 자본주의 (anako jabonjuui) (Korean), anarhokapitālisms [masculine] (Latvian), anarchokapitalizmas [masculine] (Lithuanian), анархокапитализам (anarhokapitalizam) [masculine] (Macedonian), anarkokapitalisme [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), anarkokapitalisme [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), آنارکو-کاپیتالیسم (Persian), anarchokapitalizm [inanimate, masculine] (Polish), anarcocapitalismo [masculine] (Portuguese), anarho-capitalism [neuter] (Romanian), анархо-капитали́зм (anarxo-kapitalízm) [masculine] (Russian), anarho-kapitalizam [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), anarchokapitalizmus [masculine] (Slovak), anarcocapitalismo [masculine] (Spanish), anarkokapitalism [common-gender] (Swedish), அரசழிவு முதலாளித்துவம் (aracaḻivu mutalāḷittuvam) (Tamil), anarko-kapitalizm (Turkish), anarxo-kapitalizm (Uzbek)
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  2. (politics, economics) 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. Tags: uncountable
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Synonyms: ancap, capitalist anarchism, private property anarchism, stateless capitalism Derived forms: anarcho-capitalist Related terms: agorism, individualist anarchism, libertarianism, Rothbardian, voluntaryism
Categories (other): Capitalism Disambiguation of Capitalism: 0 0

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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "philosophy that advocates the elimination of the state and a self-regulating free market",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anarcocapitalismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "philosophy that advocates the elimination of the state and a self-regulating free market",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "anarkokapitalism"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "aracaḻivu mutalāḷittuvam",
      "sense": "philosophy that advocates the elimination of the state and a self-regulating free market",
      "word": "அரசழிவு முதலாளித்துவம்"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "philosophy that advocates the elimination of the state and a self-regulating free market",
      "word": "anarko-kapitalizm"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "philosophy that advocates the elimination of the state and a self-regulating free market",
      "word": "anarxo-kapitalizm"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Karl Hess",
    "Murray Rothbard",
    "Playboy"
  ],
  "word": "anarcho-capitalism"
}

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