id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3982 Anarcho-capitalism - Wikipedia .html text/html 18852 2277 57 Anarcho-capitalists claim that various theorists have espoused legal philosophies similar to anarcho-capitalism.[7] However, anarcho-capitalism was developed in the 20th century and the first person to use the term anarcho-capitalism was Murray Rothbard.[8] Rothbard synthesized elements from the Austrian School, classical liberalism and 19th-century American individualist anarchists and mutualists Lysander Spooner and Benjamin Tucker while rejecting their labor theory of value and the anti-capitalist and socialist norms they derived from it.[9][10][11] Rothbard's anarcho-capitalist society would operate under a mutually agreed-upon "legal code which would be generally accepted, and which the courts would pledge themselves to follow".[12] This legal code would recognize contracts, private property, self-ownership and tort law in keeping with the non-aggression principle.[12][13] However, Friedman believes that "utilitarian arguments are usually the best way to defend libertarian views".[42] Peter Leeson argues that "the case for anarchy derives its strength from empirical evidence, not theory"[clarification needed].[43] Hans-Hermann Hoppe uses "argumentation ethics" for his foundation of "private property anarchism"[44] which is closer to Rothbard's natural law approach. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3982.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3982.txt