Anarcho-Capitalism
Anarcho-capitalism proposes abolishing the state entirely. Security, courts and law would be provided by private companies competing on the market, and all property and exchange would rest on voluntary contract.
- The state is an illegitimate monopoly on force and should be abolished.
- Private property and voluntary exchange are the foundation of a just society.
- Even defence and dispute resolution can be supplied by competing private firms.
Murray Rothbard developed the position in the 1960s and 1970s, notably in For a New Liberty (1973), drawing on Austrian economics and nineteenth-century individualist anarchists such as Lysander Spooner. David Friedman gave a consequentialist version in The Machinery of Freedom (1973), and Hans-Hermann Hoppe later extended it. Javier Milei of Argentina describes himself as an anarcho-capitalist in philosophy.
Critics argue that competing private security firms would become warlords or a de facto state, and that the poor would be unprotected. Anarchists on the left reject it because private property itself involves hierarchy.
No country or historical regime in our data has Anarcho-Capitalism as its closest ideology.
Method: each ideology is placed at a typical position on the 12 axes, scored from 0 to 100 toward the first pole. Ranks compare it with the other 45 ideologies; matches are 100 minus the average distance across all axes. The positions are our own calibration, not taken from any third-party source.