Well, that is not a real answer Gipper. All anyone can do is look up the word and attempt to analyze and interpret what it is you mean, what it is you are trying to say. I am not aware of any form of government, current or past, that has not adhered to a level of statism. Any authority that requires even a minimum of order, rules, law or tradition fits the definition of statism.YOU are the definition of a Statist.You use the word statist a lot. What is your definition of statist? What is the opposite of statist? What form of government currently, or even in the past, has not fit the definition of a level of "statist"?Government is conspiracy! Only the statist doesn't know it...even though this profound reality is proven true time and time again.Some of the historians went through wars just as others and some used the GI Bill to become historians.Shot at and Missed, Sh*t at and HitSpent the war years in the Pacific as an infantry PFC. Have two bronze stars, Unit Citation Ribbon, Combat Infantry Badge, Philippine Liberation Ribbon, Pacific Area Ribbon with arrowhead and two stars. My division was in combat over 300 days. How about you?
Six months of heavy combat in Vietnam as an infantryman with the Fifth Marines. I live history, unlike the hired historians, who only read about it from a sheltered academic attic.
I am wondering if you don't have some private ill-informed definition in your head that allows you to interpret the word as a negative and even insult, without really knowing the actual meaning of the word. You could not, or would not answer the question of what is the opposite of statism. Anarchism comes to mind. So, are you an anarchist?