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anarcho-capitalist

anarcho-capitalist adjective: of, pertaining to, or advocating anarcho-capitalism.

Adjective

anarcho-capitalist (not comparable)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or advocating anarcho-capitalism.
    • […] Lysander Spooner’s brilliantly hard-hitting No Treason, one of the masterpieces of anti-statism and reprinted by an anarcho-capitalist press, has had considerable influence in converting present-day youth to libertarianism.1971, Murray Rothbard, “Know Your Rights”, in WIN: Peace and Freedom through Nonviolent Action, volume 7, number 4, pages 6–10
    • Even beyond the anarcho-capitalist cryptocurrency Bitcoin, many entrepreneurs make overtly political calls for private, extranational money, for direct and disintermediated economic communication, for either total privacy or total publicity in transactions.2020, Lana Swartz, New Money: How Payment Became Social Media, Yale University Press, →ISBN, pages 4–5

Noun

anarcho-capitalist (plural anarcho-capitalists)

  1. A proponent of anarcho-capitalism.
    • It is safe to say that the great bulk of right-libertarians are anarcho-capitalists, particularly among the youth.1971, Murray Rothbard, “Know Your Rights”, in WIN: Peace and Freedom through Nonviolent Action, volume 7, number 4, pages 6–10
    • But Liberland is Mecca for libertarians' more radical strands, especially ‘anarcho-capitalists’, people who believe the state should be abolished entirely, replaced by individuals clubbing together to contract services from private companies.2017, Jamie Bartlett, chapter 8, in Radicals, William Heinemann, →ISBN

Forms of anarcho-capitalist

Adjective
alternative Internetancap
alternative Internetan-cap
alternative formanarchocapitalist
Noun
pluralanarcho-capitalists

Origin of anarcho-capitalist

From anarcho- + capitalist. Its possible earliest appearance is in the 1971 article “Know Your Rights” by Murray Rothbard, who is credited with coining it and its cognate anarcho-capitalism; though the latter's earliest extant attestation is in Karl Hess's 1969 article “The Death of Politics”.

Words formed from anarcho-capitalist

Questions about anarcho-capitalist

What does anarcho-capitalist mean?
Anarcho-capitalist means of, pertaining to, or advocating anarcho-capitalism.
What part of speech is anarcho-capitalist?
Anarcho-capitalist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near anarcho-capitalist in the dictionary

  1. anarcho-Bolsheviks
  2. anarcho-bolshevism
  3. anarcho-Bolshevist
  4. anarcho-capitalism
  5. anarcho-capitalisms
  6. anarcho-capitalist
  7. anarcho-capitalistic
  8. anarcho-capitalistically
  9. anarcho-capitalists
  10. anarcho-collectivism
  11. anarcho-collectivist

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