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There's Anarchism as the social/economical/political movement and then there's anarchism as the greek word for "no leader/government"...

Anarcho-capitalism is not a type of the former, but it is a type of the later.

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That's not what anarcho-capitalists mean when they use the word "anarchism", though. They are explicitly claiming a relationship to 19th c. socialist anarchism, not that "linguistic analysis means this word used elsewhere should also apply to our unrelated ideas".

There's a famous account on Reddit of a naïve US anarcho-capitalist kid hanging out with Greek anarchists. Things don't end well for the ancap!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/3ucp8y/...

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