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1. not comparableeconomicsOf, pertaining to, or advocating anarcho-capitalism.

   […] 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.

   1971, Murray Rothbard, “Know Your Rights”, in WIN: Peace and Freedom through Nonviolent Action, volume 7, number 4, pages 6–10

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   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.

   2020, Lana Swartz, New Money: How Payment Became Social Media, Yale University Press, →ISBN, pages 4–5

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1. economicsA proponent of anarcho-capitalism.

   It is safe to say that the great bulk of right-libertarians are anarcho-capitalists, particularly among the youth.

   1971, Murray Rothbard, “Know Your Rights”, in WIN: Peace and Freedom through Nonviolent Action, volume 7, number 4, pages 6–10

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   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.

   2017, Jamie Bartlett, chapter 8, in Radicals, William Heinemann, →ISBN

   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.

   2021 February 5, Matt Shaw, “Billionaire capitalists are designing humanity's future. Don't let them”, in The Guardian

   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.

   2023 October 22, Tom Phillips, Uki Goñi, “‘Bad and dangerous’: Argentina’s Trump on track to become president”, in The Guardian, →ISSN