{{Short description|Branch of anarchism}} {{redirect|Freed market|the general economic concept|Free market}} [[File:FreeMarketAntiCapitalist.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Free-market anti-capitalist mural in Queens |alt=Graffiti reading "Free-market anti-capitalist"]] '''Market anarchism'''<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/10383441.2012.10854747|title=Left-Libertarianism, Market Anarchism, Class Conflict and Historical Theories of Distributive Justice|first=Roderick T.|last=Long|date=January 1, 2012|journal=Griffith Law Review|volume=21|issue=2|pages=413–431|via=Taylor and Francis+NEJM|doi=10.1080/10383441.2012.10854747|s2cid=143550988|url-access=subscription}}</ref> 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.<ref>Chartier, Gary; Johnson, Charles W. (2011). ''Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty''. Brooklyn: Minor Compositions/Autonomedia.</ref><ref>{{cite web|last = Carson |first = Kevin A. |title = Introduction |url = https://www.mutualist.org/ |website = Mutualist.org |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20250604074956/https://www.mutualist.org/ |archive-date = 2025-06-04 |access-date = 2025-06-11 |url-status = live}}</ref>
Due to contending definitions of the terms 'markets' and 'capitalism' which are not used by free-market anti-capitalists,<ref>Chartier, Gary. Johnson, Charles H. ''Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty.'' Brooklyn: Minor Compositions/Autonomedia. pp. 60–61. "In order to get clear on the topic in a conversation about 'Free Market Anticapitalism,' the obvious points where clarification may be needed are going to be the meaning of capitalism, the meaning of markets, and the meaning of freedom in the market context... market anarchists have spent a lot of time...the possibility of disentangling multiple senses of 'capitalism'...The meaning of the term is obviously central to any free market economics...Pro-capitalist economists have often suggested such a broad understanding of 'markets' even if they have not fully understood...its implications. For example Murray Rothbard...."</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Zwolinski |first=Matt |date=9 January 2013 |title=Markets Not Capitalism |url=https://fee.org/articles/markets-not-capitalism/ |website=FEE.org |publisher=Foundation for Economic Education |access-date=12 July 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523005720/https://fee.org/articles/markets-not-capitalism/ |archive-date=23 May 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Kabaservice, Geoff |date=17 April 2025 |title=The old, weird history of libertarianism|author2= Zwolinski, Matt |url=https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-old-weird-history-of-libertarianism-with-matt-zwolinski/ |website=Niskanen Center |access-date=13 July 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250617072416/https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-old-weird-history-of-libertarianism-with-matt-zwolinski/ |archive-date=17 June 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref> anarcho-capitalism has been referred to synonymously as "free-market anarchism," but the ideologies differ significantly.<ref>{{cite book|last=Carrier|first=James G.|title=Meanings of the Market: The Free Market in Western Culture|year=1997|publisher=Berg|location=Oxford|edition=1|page=[https://archive.org/details/meaningsofmarket0000unse/page/107 107]|isbn=185973149X|url=https://archive.org/details/meaningsofmarket0000unse/page/107}}</ref><ref>Miller, G. Tyler; Paul, Ellen Frankel; Miller Jr., Fred D., eds. (1993). ''Liberalism and the Economic Order, Part 2''. [https://books.google.com/books?id=DH074LmxH-sC&dq=free-market+anarchism&pg=PA115 p. 115].</ref><ref>Long, Roderick T.; Machan, Tibor R. (2016) [2008]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=JCztCwAAQBAJ&dq=market+anarchism&pg=PT8 ''Anarchism/Minarchism: Is a Government Part of a Free Country?'']. Ashgate.</ref><ref>Hoffman, John; Graham, Paul (2006). ''Introduction to Political Theory''. p. 243.</ref> The Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS), which Kevin Carson is associated with, is one such group of free-market anti-capitalists;<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jun |first=Nathan J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f_U4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA308 |title=Brill's Companion to Anarchism and Philosophy |year=2017 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-9004356894 |pages=308 |language=en}}</ref> as is Samuel Edward Konkin III's agorism, a tendency associated with left-libertarianism.<ref>"Anarchism". In Gaus, Gerald F.; D'Agostino, Fred, eds. (2012). ''The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy''. p. 227. "Later [left-libertarianism] became a term for the left or Konkinite wing of the free-market libertarian movement, and has since come to cover a range of pro-market but anti-capitalist positions, mostly individualist anarchist, including agorism and mutualism, often with an implication of sympathies (such as for radical feminism or the labor movement) not usually shared by anarcho-capitalists."</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web| last = Mckay | first = Iain | year = 2008 | title = Capitalism Does Not Equal the Market | url = https://anarchism.pageabode.com/blog/capitalism-does-not-equal-the-market/ | website = Anarchist Writers | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20250326144746/https://anarchism.pageabode.com/blog/capitalism-does-not-equal-the-market/ | archive-date = 26 March 2025 | access-date = 26 March 2025 | url-status = live | quote = It would be tempting to call such a system of market co-operatives "market anarchism" in the same way that Schweickart's calls his similar system market socialism, but that would be unwise. This is because "anarcho"-capitalists have appropriated that term in a rebranding exercise for their own ideology. (...) Best, I think, to call it mutualism, as Proudhon did — that would make it extremely difficult for the propertarian right to appropriate it.}}</ref><ref name="McKay2025">{{cite web |last=McKay |first=Iain |date=1 May 2025 |title=An Anarchist FAQ version 15.7 released |url=https://www.anarchistfaq.org/afaq/blog/afaq-version-157.html |website=An Anarchist FAQ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250724171436/https://www.anarchistfaq.org/afaq/blog/afaq-version-157.html |archive-date=24 July 2025 |access-date=24 July 2025 |url-status=live |quote =some have starting using the term "market anarchism" to describe Individualist Anarchism and mutualism. This can be considered as an equivalent of "market socialism" but the problem is that the term can be used by "anarcho"-capitalists in yet another attempt to smuggle their authoritarian ideology into anarchist circles.}}</ref>
== See also == {{cols}} * Anarchism and capitalism * Geolibertarianism * Issues in anarchism * Market socialism * Mutualism * Ricardian socialism {{colend}}
== References == {{Reflist|30em}}
== Bibliography == {{refbegin|2}} * {{cite book|chapter=Anarchism and Markets|last=Carson|first=Kevin|author-link=Kevin Carson|year=2017|location=Leiden|publisher=Brill|editor-first=Nathan|editor-last=Jun|title=Brill's Companion to Anarchism and Philosophy|isbn=978-9004356894|pages=81–119|doi=10.1163/9789004356894_005|url=https://brill.com/view/title/35861}}<!-- Uses "market anarchism" --> * {{cite book|last=Chartier|first=Gary|year=2014|chapter=Market Democracy, Market Anarchy, and Global Justice|title=Radicalizing Rawls. Philosophy, Public Policy, and Transnational Law|pages=121–149 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|doi=10.1057/9781137382979_6|isbn=978-1137382979}} * {{cite book|last=Long|first=Roderick T.|year=2008|chapter=Market Anarchism as Constitutionalism|editor-first1=Roderick T.|editor-last1=Long|editor-first2=Tibor R.|editor-last2=Machan|title=Anarchism/Minarchism|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1315566955|doi=10.4324/9781315566955-11|doi-broken-date=1 July 2025 }} * {{cite journal|last=Long|first=Roderick T.|year=2012|title=Left-Libertarianism, Market Anarchism, Class Conflict and Historical Theories of Distributive Justice|journal=Griffith Law Review|volume=21|issue=2|pages=413–431|doi=10.1080/10383441.2012.10854747}}<!-- Uses "market anarchism" --> * {{cite book|chapter=Anarchism and Libertarianism|last=Long|first=Roderick T.|year=2017|location=Leiden|publisher=Brill|editor-first=Nathan|editor-last=Jun|title=Brill's Companion to Anarchism and Philosophy|isbn=978-9004356894|pages=285–317|doi=10.1163/9789004356894_012|url=https://brill.com/view/title/35861}}<!-- Uses "free-market anarchism" and "market anarchism" --> * {{cite book|last=Long|first=Roderick T.|year=2020|chapter=The Anarchist Landscape|editor-first1=Gary|editor-last1=Chartier|editor-first2=Chad|editor-last2=Van Schoelandt|title=The Routledge Handbook of Anarchy and Anarchist Thought|pages=28–38 |location=New York|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1315185255|doi=10.4324/9781315185255-2|s2cid=228898569 }}<!-- Uses "market anarchism" --> * {{cite book|last=Long|first=Roderick T.|year=2022|chapter=Anarchism|editor-first1=Matt|editor-last1=Zwolinski|editor-first2=Benjamin|editor-last2=Ferguson|title=The Routledge Companion to Libertarianism|pages=181–203 |publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0367814243|doi=10.4324/9780367814243-16}}<!-- Uses "market anarchism" --> * {{cite book|last=Vest|first=J. Martin|year=2020|chapter=Barbarians in the Agora: American Market Anarchism, 1945–2011|editor-first1=Gary|editor-last1=Chartier|editor-first2=Chad|editor-last2=Van Schoelandt|title=The Routledge Handbook of Anarchy and Anarchist Thought|pages=112–125 |location=New York|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1315185255|doi=10.4324/9781315185255-8|s2cid=228898569 }}<!-- Uses "market anarchism" --> {{refend}}
== Further reading == {{refbegin|2}} * {{cite book|editor1-last=Chartier|editor1-first=Gary|editor2-last=Johnson|editor2-first=Charles W.|year=2011|last1=Chartier|first1=Gary|last2=Johnson|first2=Charles W.|chapter=Introduction|title=Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty|location=Brooklyn|publisher=Autonomedia|isbn=978-1570272424|pages=1–16}}<!-- Uses "market anarchism" --> * {{cite book|editor1-last=Chartier|editor1-first=Gary|editor2-last=Johnson|editor2-first=Charles W.|year=2011|last=Chartier|first=Gary|chapter=Advocates of Freed Markets Should Oppose Capitalism|title=Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty|location=Brooklyn|publisher=Autonomedia|isbn=978-1570272424|pages=107–117}}<!-- Uses "free-market anticapitalism" --> * {{cite book|editor1-last=Chartier|editor1-first=Gary|editor2-last=Johnson|editor2-first=Charles W.|year=2011|last=Chartier|first=Gary|chapter=Socialist Ends, Market Means|title=Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty|location=Brooklyn|publisher=Autonomedia|isbn=978-1570272424|pages=149–154}}<!-- Uses "market anarchism" --> * {{cite book|editor1-last=Chartier|editor1-first=Gary|editor2-last=Johnson|editor2-first=Charles W.|year=2011|last=Johnson|first=Charles W.|chapter=Markets Freed From Capitalism|title=Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty|location=Brooklyn|publisher=Autonomedia|isbn=978-1570272424|pages=59–81}}<!-- Uses "market anarchism" and "free market anticapitalism" --> * {{cite book|editor1-last=Chartier|editor1-first=Gary|editor2-last=Johnson|editor2-first=Charles W.|year=2011|last=Spangler|first=Brad|chapter=Market Anarchism as Stigmergic Socialism|title=Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty|location=Brooklyn|publisher=Autonomedia|isbn=978-1570272424|pages=85–92}}<!-- Uses "market anarchism" --> {{refend}}
== External links == * [http://praxeology.net/all-left.htm Alliance of the Libertarian Left] * [http://c4ss.org/ Center for a Stateless Society] * [http://praxeology.net/molinari.htm Molinari Institute]
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