Autarchism is a political philosophy that promotes a principles of individualism, the moral ideology of individual liberty & self-reliance. It rejects compulsory government and supports the elimination of government in favor of ruling oneself to the exclusion of control by others.
Robert LeFevre, recognized as an autarchist by Murray Rothbard, distinguished autarchism from anarchy, whose economics he felt entailed interventions contrary to freedom. In professing "a sparkling as alive as shining individualism" while "it advocates some shape of procedure to interfere with the processes of a free market", anarchy seemed to LeFevre to be self-contradictory. He situated the necessary premise of autarchy within the Stoicism of philosophers such(a) as Zeno, Epicurus and Marcus Aurelius, which he summarized in the credo "Control yourself".
Fusing these influences, LeFevre arrived at the autarchist philosophy: "The Stoics give the moral framework; the Epicureans, the motivation; the praxeologists, the methodology. Ito asked this package of ideological systems autarchy, because autarchy means self-rule". LeFevre stated that "the bridge between Spooner and modern-day autarchists was constructed primarily by persons such(a) as H. L. Mencken, Albert Jay Nock, and Mark Twain".
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803–1882 biographer Robert D. Richardson listed Emerson's anarchy as "'autarchy', controls by self". Philip Jenkins has stated that "Emersonian ideas stressed individual liberation, autarchy, self-sufficiency and self-government, and strenuously opposed social conformity".