propertarianism

English

Etymology

From propertarian +‎ -ism.

Noun

propertarianism (uncountable)

1. (politics, libertarianism) The libertarian philosophy that promotes contractual relationships made voluntarily, as opposed to government-imposed ones.
   • 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:

     Faced with the dilemmas of democratic 'propertarianism', which have indeed not been fully […]

   • 1999, Eben Moglen, Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright:

     Propertarianism joined to capitalist vigor destroyed meaningful commercial competition, but when it came to making good software, anarchism won.

   • 2015, Eleanor Robertson, “The Herschel backpack: how Generation Y carries capitalism's mythologies”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Put most famously by John Locke, homesteading is central to anarcho-capitalism, rights-based libertarianism, and propertarianism.

See also

• proprietarianism