propertarianism

English

Etymology

propertarian +‎ -ism

Noun

propertarianism (uncountable)

  1. (politics, libertarianism) The libertarian philosophy that promotes contractual relationships made voluntarily, as opposed to government-imposed ones.
    • 1974, Marcus Cunliffe, The right to property: a theme in American history, Sir George Watson lecture delivered in the University of Leicester, 4 May 1973:
      Faced with the dilemmas of democratic 'propertarianism', which have indeed not been fully […]
    • 1999, Eben Moglen, Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright:
      Propertarianism joined to capitalist vigor destroyed meaningful commercial competition, but when it came to making good software, anarchism won.
    • 2015, Eleanor Robertson, “The Herschel backpack: how Generation Y carries capitalism's mythologies”, in The Guardian‎:
      Put most famously by John Locke, homesteading is central to anarcho-capitalism, rights-based libertarianism, and propertarianism.
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