Autarchy vs. Autarky — What's the Difference?

Absolute rule or power; autocracy.

Autarky is the characteristic of self-sufficiency, usually applied to societies, communities, states and their economic systems.Autarky as an ideal or method has been embraced by a wide range of political ideologies and movements, especially left-wing ideologies 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. Conservative, centrist and nationalist movements have also adopted autarky in an attempt to preserve part of an existing social order or to develop a particular industry.

A country under such rule.

A policy of national self-sufficiency and nonreliance on imports or economic aid.

Variant of autarky.

A self-sufficient region or country.

A policy of national self-sufficiency and nonreliance on imports or economic aid.

(uncountable) A personal condition or state of self-reliance; independence.

A self-sufficient region or country.

(uncountable) (A policy of) national economic self-sufficiency, aimed at ending reliance on foreign imports to sustain a domestic economy.

A condition of absolute power

(countable) A self-sufficient country or region which is not dependent on international trade to function economically.

(government) Autocracy absolute rule by a single person.

Economic independence as a national policy.

(politics) Sovereignty or self-government national political independence.

Economic independence as a national policy

Alternative spelling of autarky

Self-sufficiency, especially economic self-sufficiency as applied to nations.

Same as autarky.

Economic independence as a national policy

A political system governed by a single individual