Etymology

anarcho-capitalist

Today it means: Of, pertaining to, or advocating anarcho-capitalism. Full definition →

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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”.

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