The movement that I’m in favor of is a movement of libertarians who do not substitute whim for reason. Now some of them do, obviously, and I’m against that. I’m in favor of reason over whim. As far as I’m concerned, and I think the rest of the movement, too, we are anarcho-capitalists. In other words, we believe that capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you can’t really have one without the other. True anarchism will be capitalism, and true capitalism will be anarchism. . Murray N. Rothbard
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When the late Harry Browne, who was a founder of the Libertarian Party, told a reporter that he was a capitalist first and an anarchist second, he was saying that capitalism and anarchism are two sides of the same coin. The first is a form of government where people have freedom of choice and can determine their own fate. The second is a system where people have freedom from the state to go about their daily lives without interference from others. In other words, it’s a type of government where the power is held by the people themselves.

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