thumb|upright=1.2|Free-market anti-capitalist mural in [[Queens |alt=Graffiti reading "Free-market anti-capitalist"]]

Market anarchism 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.

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

Some writers, such as Iain McKay, have been skeptical of this conceptual nomenclature on the grounds that it still leads to misunderstandings about its similarity to anarcho-capitalists.

See also

  • Anarchism and capitalism
  • Geolibertarianism
  • Issues in anarchism
  • Market socialism
  • Mutualism
  • Ricardian socialism

References

Bibliography

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Further reading

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  • Alliance of the Libertarian Left
  • Center for a Stateless Society
  • Molinari Institute