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Description
"Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State should be entirely turned over to the voluntary, consensual forces of market society.
The first explicit defender of Market Anarchism was the 19th-century economist and social theorist Gustave de Molinari. The idea was taken up by the individualist anarchists, particularly those associated with Benjamin Tucker's journal Liberty. More recently, Market Anarchism has been revived by a number of thinkers in the libertarian movement. The terms “anarcho-capitalism” and “voluntary socialism” have both been associated with the Market Anarchist tradition." (http://c4ss.org/about-market-anarchism)
Discussion
A critique of the concept by Derek Ryan Strong:
"Despite accepting the desirability of markets, I do not consider myself a market anarchist. While I do consider myself a mutualist anarchist, I do not overemphasize markets. As a result I have problems with the term "market anarchist," although there is not much philosophical difference between myself and self-proclaimed market anarchists. This is primarily an issue of rhetoric.
Firstly, to identify as market anarchist places undue emphasis on the economic aspects of life at the expense of broader social concerns. I want a market economy (at least partially), but I do not want a market society. Secondly, why should we emphasize market production at the expense of, say, household or peer production? Are these not equally as important and liberating? Thirdly, the term "market" should not be used loosely to mean all voluntary actions. The market connotes exchange and buying and selling specifically. Words (and ideas) have meaning and to envision or encompass all of economic or social life in the term "market" is degrading to actual and potential human existence." (http://creatingmutualism.blogspot.com/2010/08/markets-anarchism-and-rhetoric-or-why-i.html)
More Information
- The Molinari Institute, our parent organization, publishes and links to a large amount of online resources on market anarchism at http://praxeology.net/anarcres.htm.
- Center for a Stateless Society