# etatist # References / Links >[!Ref] Lexicon > ># etatist > n. and adj., (French). Statist, in the sense of an advocate of, or tendency toward, the concentration of all economic controls and planning in the hands of the government. See "Statism." ?tatism appears in two forms: socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state, the social apparatus of compulsion and coercion. > [[Omnipotent Government - Mises (OG)]] 5-11, 44-111, 267-71, 285-86.