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propertarianism en · NOUN

Etymology

From propertarian + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The libertarian philosophy that promotes contractual relationships made voluntarily, as opposed to government-imposed ones.
    • Put most famously by John Locke, homesteading is central to anarcho-capitalism, rights-based libertarianism, and propertarianism. 2015, Eleanor Robertson, “The Herschel backpack: how Generation Y carries capitalism's mythologies”, in The Guardian:
    • Propertarianism joined to capitalist vigor destroyed meaningful commercial competition, but when it came to making good software, anarchism won. 1999, Eben Moglen, Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright:
    • Faced with the dilemmas of democratic 'propertarianism', which have indeed not been fully […] 1974, Marcus Cunliffe, The right to property: a theme in American history, Sir George Watson lecture delivered in the University of Leicester, 4 May 1973:

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proprietarianism