anarcho-capitalist

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Etymology

From anarcho- + capitalist.

Adjective

anarcho-capitalist (not comparable)

  1. (politics, economics) Of, relating to, or advocating anarcho-capitalism.
    • 2020, Lana Swartz, New Money: How Payment Became Social Media, Yale University Press, →ISBN, pages 4–5:
      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.

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Noun

anarcho-capitalist (uncountable)

  1. (politics, economics) A person who advocates anarcho-capitalism.
    • 2017, Jamie Bartlett, chapter 8, in Radicals, William Heinemann, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2021 February 5, Matt Shaw, “Billionaire capitalists are designing humanity's future. Don't let them”, in The Guardian:
      The Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, a self-described anarcho-capitalist, is a major supporter of the movement – which, like space colonization, seems to attract the enthusiasm of a certain kind of fantastically rich and rightwing tech baron.

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