Autarky

Characteristic of self-sufficiency

Autarky is the characteristic of self-sufficiency, usually applied to societies, communities, states, and their economic systems. Autarky as an ideology or economic approach has been attempted by a range of political ideologies and movements, particularly leftist ones like African socialism, mutualism, war communism, communalism, swadeshi, syndicalism (especially anarcho-syndicalism), and left-wing populism, generally in an effort to build alternative economic structures or to control resources against structures a particular movement views as hostile. However, some right-wing ones, like nationalism, conservatism, and anti-globalism, along with even some centrist and religious movements (such as Islamism), have also adopted autarky, generally on a more limited scale, to develop a particular industry, to gain independence from other national entities, or to preserve part of an existing social order.

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