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Free-marketism is a loose aggregation of beliefs that generally oppose government and favor private enterprise, almost always advocating for "smaller" government or at least less government regulation of private business (laissez-faire economics). Some advocate for the abolishment of government altogether.

Terminology

An adherent of free marketism is called a free-marketeer or free-marketist.

Free-marketism that only advocates for "smaller" government, i.e. deregulation, is a form of minarchism.

Free-marketeers who advocate for the complete abolishment of government often self-identify as anarcho-capitalists (AnCaps for short), a form of anarchism, or as advocates of "Austrian economics", a reference to the Mises Institute.

Questions

Some questions for free-marketeers:

Do you agree that voluntarism has some issues that need to be resolved?
Do you agree that government sometimes "gets it right", i.e. takes actions whose effects are primarily (and intentionally) beneficial?
Do you agree that some amount of coercion is necessary in any society?
1. How do you resolve the discrepancy between the idea of a "purely voluntary" society and the idea that it would be okay for private individuals to hire a police force?

Techniques

"rights" means "law enforcement is immoral"

Get you to accept their definition of "rights", which is that they are created by nature (not humans) and yet are undetectable to science. (Kind of like "God".)
Once you've accepted this, they get you to accept their (reasonable-sounding) list of what those (undetectable) rights are, because <select arbitrary explanation from list and insert here&rt;.
On the basis of that list of inalienable natural rights that you can't argue with because NATURE, they can then argue that taxation is theft and the use of force by governments to keep people from doing bad things is the Worst Thing Evar.

Hypothesis

Free-marketist philosophy may be summed up as "In the absence of government, we will be safe from people who want to exploit others because we can freely form organizations to protect ourselves from those of ill intent. These organizations are different from governments because they will do things the way I think things ought to be done, and because I will, of course, be among the leaders." (h/t Jeremy Nixon in this thread)

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Reference

Issuepedia

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 Free-marketeers who advocate for the complete abolishment of government often self-identify as [[anarcho-capitalist]]s ([[AnCap]]s for short), a form of [[anarchism]], or as advocates of "[[Austrian economics]]", a reference to the [[Mises Institute]].
-==Beliefs==
+===Questions===
-Free-marketeers generally believe some combination of the following:
+Some questions for free-marketeers:
-* Government is not inherently something desirable.
+# Do you agree that voluntarism has some issues that need to be resolved?
-* Government is inherently evil.
+# Do you agree that government sometimes "gets it right", i.e. takes actions whose effects are primarily (and intentionally) beneficial?
-* A society without government would be more free.
+# Do you agree that some amount of coercion is necessary in any society?
-* Without government, political power derives solely from reputation.
+## How do you resolve the discrepancy between the idea of a "purely voluntary" society and the idea that it would be okay for private individuals to hire a police force?
-** (Sometimes: [[All political power comes from government]].)
+===Techniques===
-* [[Unwanted monopolies cannot exist without government]].
+===="rights" means "law enforcement is immoral"====
-* Most coercion originates from government.
+# Get you to accept their definition of "rights", which is that they are created by nature (not humans) and yet are undetectable to science. (Kind of like "God".)
-* Government is the primary thing forcing people to associate with others they do not wish to associate with.
+# Once you've accepted this, they get you to accept their (reasonable-sounding) list of what those (undetectable) rights are, because &lt;select arbitrary explanation from list and insert here&rt;.
-** ''(...which ignores factors such as non-portability of major assets such as land and housing)''
+# On the basis of that list of inalienable natural rights that you can't argue with because NATURE, they can then argue that taxation is theft and the use of force by governments to keep people from doing bad things is the Worst Thing Evar.
-* Government has a monopoly on force.
-* A society without government would not have extreme wealth or power inequality.
-* In a society without government, any entity that acted malevolently would become unprofitable and thereby disempowered.
-(See [https://plus.google.com/b/109185295204629063487/+RobertHirschSandor/posts/KeCk3WiGv9M this discussion] for at least one confirmation of these beliefs.)
-==Arguments==
-One common free-marketist argument is an expression of the {{l/wp|Nirvana fallacy}}:
-* Government is terrible because it kills and coerces people.
-* If we all lived in a peaceful stateless society where nobody killed or coerced anybody else, then nobody would be killed or coerced.
-* Therefore if you don't support doing away with government, you are supporting killing and coercion.
 ==Hypothesis==
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 ===Reference===
 * {{issuepedia}}
-===Organizations===
-* [http://mises.org Mises Institute]: by far the most common source of free-marketist philosophy