Original sentence: competing theories often meant to justify the private ownership of capital, to explain the operation of such markets, to guide the application or elimination of government regulation of property and markets, to advocate a "free market
Edited sentence: competing theories often meant to justify the private ownership of capital, to explain the operation of such markets, to guide the application or elimination of government regulation of property and markets, to advocate a "free market", and in some cases meant to advocate elimination of the state itself (the last almost always referred to as anarcho-capitalism rather than capitalism)