Anarchokapitalizm – ideologia polityczna, doktryna polityczno-prawna czy nurt filozoficzno-polityczny?

Abstract

The paper aims at categorizing anarcho-capitalism either as a political ideology, political and legal doctrine or political philosophy. Resolving such a research problem is a necessary step in studies on anarcho-capitalism and enables further and sound research on this set of political ideas. A problem of categorization of political thought is broadly discussed with reference to the literature, and categories of political ideology, political and legal doctrine and political philosophy are defined. Subsequently, anarcho-capitalism is correlated with every of these categories. Finally, it is argued that anarcho-capitalism is a political and legal doctrine, since it is a quite sophisticated, systematized, methodologically and theoretically sound set of views on politics and law, and is widely oriented towards practical realization of its political and legal thought.