# anarcho-capitalist
## English
### Alternative forms

* ancap, an-cap (chiefly Internet slang)
* anarchocapitalist

### Etymology

From anarcho- +‎ capitalist.

### Etymology

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”.

### Adjective

anarcho-capitalist (not comparable)
* (politics, economics) Of, relating to, or advocating anarcho-capitalism.
** 1971, Murray Rothbard, “Know Your Rights”, in WIN: Peace and Freedom through Nonviolent Action‎, volume 7, number 4, pages 6–10:[…] 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.
** 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.

#### Translations
### Noun

anarcho-capitalist (plural anarcho-capitalists)
* (politics, economics) A person who advocates anarcho-capitalism.
** 1971, Murray Rothbard, “Know Your Rights”, in WIN: Peace and Freedom through Nonviolent Action‎, volume 7, number 4, pages 6–10:It is safe to say that the great bulk of right-libertarians are anarcho-capitalists, particularly among the youth.
** 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.
** 2023 October 22, Tom Phillips, Uki Goñi, “‘Bad and dangerous’: Argentina’s Trump on track to become president”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:At his final campaign event in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, the 53-year-old “anarcho-capitalist” addressed a packed 15,000-capacity stadium from a stage adorned with a banner proclaiming him “The Only Solution” to Argentina’s economic malaise.

#### Derived terms

* anarcho-capitalistic
* ancap

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Leeson, Robert (2017) Hayek: A Collaborative Biography, Part IX: The Divine Right of the 'Free' Market, Springer, →ISBN, page 180: “To the original 'anarchocapitalist' (Rothbard coined the term) […] .”
* ↑ Flood, Anthony (2010) “Untitled Preface to Murray Rothbard's ‘Know Your Rights’”, in AnthonyFlood.com – Philosophy against Misosophy‎, retrieved 9 October 1969: “Rothbard's neologism, ‘anarchocapitalism,’ probably makes its first appearance in print here.”
* ↑ Hess, Karl (2003) [1969] “The Death of Politics”, in Faré's Home Page‎, retrieved 9 October 2023
* ↑ Johnson, Charles (2015 August 28) “Karl Hess on Anarcho-Capitalism”, in Center for a Stateless Society‎, retrieved 9 October 2023: “In fact, the earliest documented, printed use of the word "anarcho-capitalism" that I can find [...] actually comes neither from Wollstein nor from Rothbard, but from Karl Hess's manifesto "The Death of Politics," which was published in Playboy in March, 1969.”