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 and shining
individualism" while "it advocates some kind of procedure to interfere with the processes of a
free market", anarchy seemed to LeFevre to be self-contradictory. Fusing these influences, LeFevre arrived at the autarchist ideology: "The Stoics provide the moral framework; the
Epicureans, the motivation; the
praxeologists, the methodology. I propose to call this package of ideological systems autarchy, because autarchy means self-rule".
Philip Jenkins has stated that "Emersonian ideas stressed individual liberation, autarchy, self-sufficiency and self-government, and strenuously opposed social conformity". == See also ==