Free-market anarchism
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Free-market anarchism (also:Market anarchism) is a term which can be used to refer to:
- Some forms of Individualist anarchism, a school of thought originating in the United States in the 19th century;
- Mutualism, a form of anarchism described by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Modern anarcho-capitalism.
Note: A controversy exists because, while all three reject statism and support a competitive free market and private property, modern anarcho-capitalism accepts economic arrangements that the earlier philosophies would have considered antithetical to their conception of a "free" market. For example, the original individualist anarchists opposed property rights for unused land and all methods by which one could profit from possessing title to it.
