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Market anarchism

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Graffiti reading "Free-market anti-capitalist"
Free-market anti-capitalist mural in Queens

Market anarchism[1] is the branch of anarchism that advocates a free-market economic system based on voluntary interactions without the involvement of the state; a form of individualist anarchism.[2]

Due to contending definitions of the terms 'markets' and 'capitalism' which are not used by free-market anti-capitalists,[3][4][5] anarcho-capitalism has been referred to synonymously as "free-market anarchism," but the ideologies differ significantly.[6][7][8][9] The Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS), which Kevin Carson is associated with, is one such group of free-marked anti-capitalists.[10] As is Samuel Edward Konkin III's agorism, a tendency associated with left-libertarianism.[11]

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References

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  1. ^ Long, Roderick T. (January 1, 2012). "Left-Libertarianism, Market Anarchism, Class Conflict and Historical Theories of Distributive Justice". Griffith Law Review. 21 (2): 413–431. doi:10.1080/10383441.2012.10854747. S2CID 143550988 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.
  2. ^ Chartier, Gary; Johnson, Charles W. (2011). Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty. Brooklyn: Minor Compositions/Autonomedia.
  3. ^ Chartier, Gary. Johnson, Charles H. Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty. Brooklyn: Minor Compositions/Autonomedia. pp 60-61. “In order to get clear on the topic in a conversation about ‘Free Market Anticapitalism,’ the obvious points where clarification may be needed are going to be the meaning of capitalism, the meaning of markets, and the meaning of freedom in the market context… market anarchists have spent a lot of time…the possibility of disentangling multiple senses of ‘capitalism’…The meaning of the term is obviously central to any free market economics…Pro-capitalist economists have often suggested such a broad understanding of ‘markets’ even if they have not fully understood…its implications. For example Murray Rothbard….”
  4. ^ Zwolinski, Matt (9 January 2013). "Markets Not Capitalism". FEE.org. Foundation for Economic Education. Archived from the original on 23 May 2024. Retrieved 12 July 2025.
  5. ^ Kabaservice, Geoff (17 April 2025). "The old, weird history of libertarianism, with Matt Zwolinski". Niskanen Center. Archived from the original on 17 June 2025. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  6. ^ Carrier, James G. (1997). Meanings of the Market: The Free Market in Western Culture (1 ed.). Oxford: Berg. p. 107. ISBN 1-85973-149-X.
  7. ^ Miller, G. Tyler; Paul, Ellen Frankel; Miller Jr., Fred D., eds. (1993). Liberalism and the Economic Order, Part 2. p. 115.
  8. ^ Long, Roderick T.; Machan, Tibor R. (2016) [2008]. Anarchism/Minarchism: Is a Government Part of a Free Country?. Ashgate.
  9. ^ Hoffman, John; Graham, Paul (2006). Introduction to Political Theory. p. 243.
  10. ^ Jun, Nathan J. (2017-09-25). Brill's Companion to Anarchism and Philosophy. BRILL. p. 308. ISBN 978-90-04-35689-4.
  11. ^ "Anarchism". In Gaus, Gerald F.; D'Agostino, Fred, eds. (2012). The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy. p. 227. "Later [left-libertarianism] became a term for the left or Konkinite wing of the free-market libertarian movement, and has since come to cover a range of pro-market but anti-capitalist positions, mostly individualist anarchist, including agorism and mutualism, often with an implication of sympathies (such as for radical feminism or the labor movement) not usually shared by anarcho-capitalists."

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Further reading

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  • Chartier, Gary; Johnson, Charles W. (2011). "Introduction". In Chartier, Gary; Johnson, Charles W. (eds.). Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty. Brooklyn: Autonomedia. pp. 1–16. ISBN 978-1-57027-242-4.
  • Chartier, Gary (2011). "Advocates of Freed Markets Should Oppose Capitalism". In Chartier, Gary; Johnson, Charles W. (eds.). Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty. Brooklyn: Autonomedia. pp. 107–117. ISBN 978-1-57027-242-4.
  • Chartier, Gary (2011). "Socialist Ends, Market Means". In Chartier, Gary; Johnson, Charles W. (eds.). Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty. Brooklyn: Autonomedia. pp. 149–154. ISBN 978-1-57027-242-4.
  • Johnson, Charles W. (2011). "Markets Freed From Capitalism". In Chartier, Gary; Johnson, Charles W. (eds.). Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty. Brooklyn: Autonomedia. pp. 59–81. ISBN 978-1-57027-242-4.
  • Spangler, Brad (2011). "Market Anarchism as Stigmergic Socialism". In Chartier, Gary; Johnson, Charles W. (eds.). Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty. Brooklyn: Autonomedia. pp. 85–92. ISBN 978-1-57027-242-4.
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