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'''Statism''' describes any [[social system|social]] or [[political system]] in which state intervention plays a significant role., Iincluding is also used to describe a systemsystems that implements a significant degree of [[Planned economy|centralized economic planning]], or policy, as opposed to allowing an unrestrained [[free market]] economy.

It should be noted that "statism" is a very general and ambiguous term, which lumps together a great number of opposing ideologies. One example: "statism" is frequently used by [[libertarianism|libertarian capitalists]] to describe any social or political system that implements, what they believe to be, an unreasonable degree of centralized planning. At the extreme, some of them believe that any such planning is unreasonable. In this context, "statist" may refer to any governing body that does not embrace the ideal of [[Laissez-faire]].