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  • noun Opposition to state intervention into personal, social or economic affairs.

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ statism

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Examples

  • You also have to make an anti state argument and convert the great unwashed to antistatism.

    Mission Crisis?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Quasibill: Disagreement with libertarian reifications of freedom is not opposing freedom; your approach presumes antistatism is morally essential and that feminism (anti-capitalism, etc.) is a disposable ‘outcome’; I could just as easily play the reverse for moral points and treat libertarianism as the petty preference and patriarchy (etc.) as the uber-sin.

    Abortion on demand and without apology (Kiwi edition) 2008

  • Likewise, Palin's husband was a member of a political party whose members favored secession for Alaska, suggesting an affiliation with radical antistatism.

    On a Short Leach 2008

  • Perhaps it might help draw them back to antistatism.

    IsThatLegal? 2005

  • From 1867 to 1940, the Catholic Church played the primary role in Quebec in the development of both public education and family assistance, and the church actively promoted a virulent form of antistatism that opposed any government involvement in social affairs.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • While scholars often emphasize traditionalism, ruralism, and antistatism as the dominant factors of Quebec's political culture prior to the 1960s, some Quebecois embraced progressivism early in the 20th century.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • James Scott's critique of high modernist agriculture, meanwhile, laid a cornerstone for my ongoing intellectual interest in the technology, political economy, social realities, and political culture of rural Americans living in a world of industrial agriculture, hypercapitalist consumerism, and profound antistatism-a world that I described in my first book, Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy.

    National Coalition for History 2009

  • A theological justification for antistatism explained that only the father, as head of his family, should be directly concerned with his family's welfare and with his children's education, which was controlled by the Catholic Church.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • From 1867 to 1940, the Catholic Church played the primary role in Quebec in the development of both public education and family assistance, and the church actively promoted a virulent form of antistatism that opposed any government involvement in social affairs.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Getitstraight 2009

  • While scholars often emphasize traditionalism, ruralism, and antistatism as the dominant factors of Quebec's political culture prior to the 1960s, some Quebecois embraced progressivism early in the 20th century.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Getitstraight 2009

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