Outline of libertarianism

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to libertarianism.

Libertarianism – political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. It may also mean any political philosophy which approximates this view. Libertarianism includes diverse beliefs, all advocating strict limits to government activity and sharing the goal of maximizing individual liberty and political freedom.^[1] Philosopher Roderick T. Long defines libertarianism as "any political position that advocates a radical redistribution of power from the coercive state to voluntary associations of free individuals", whether "voluntary association" takes the form of the free market or of communal co-operatives.^[2] According to the The U.S. Libertarian party, libertarianism is the advocacy of a government that is funded voluntarily and limited to protecting individuals from coercion and violence.^[3]

Nature of libertarianism

Main article: Libertarianism

Supports

• Individual responsibility –
• Self-Sufficiency –
• Constitutionalism –
• Economic freedom –
• Self-ownership –
• Voluntary association –
• Self-management –
• Free will –
• Non-aggression –

Rejects

• Authoritarianism –
• Coercion –
• Military conflict –
• Tax –
• War on Drugs^[4] –
• Imperialism –

Debates among schools

• Free market / Laissez-faire vs. Socialism/Communism
• Anarchism vs. Minarchism/Libertarian municipalism

Branches of libertarianism

Schools of libertarian thought

Libertarianism has many different schools of thought, although they all focus on smaller government and greater individual responsibility. Some Libertarian schools of thought promote the total abolition of government, while some promote a smaller government which does not initiate force. Some seek private ownership of all property and natural resources, others promote communal ownership of all natural resources and varying degrees of private property.

• Agorism –
• Anarcho-capitalism –
• Austrian School –
• Autarchism –
• Christian libertarianism –
• Civil societarianism –
• Classical liberalism –
• Consequentialist libertarianism –
• Crypto-anarchism –
• Deontological libertarianism –
• Free-market anarchism –
• Geolibertarianism –
• Green libertarianism –
• Individualist anarchism –
• Individualist feminism –
• Left-libertarianism –
• Liberism –
• Libertarian Christianity –
• Libertarian conservatism –
• Libertarian socialism –
• Market liberalism –
• Libertarian municipalism –
• Market socialism –
• Minarchism –
• Mutualism –
• Paleoliberalism –
• Paleolibertarianism –
• Panarchism –
• Philosophical anarchism –
• Propertarianism –
• Right-anarchism –
• Right-libertarianism –
• Small-l libertarianism –
• Voluntaryism –

History of libertarianism

Main article: History of libertarianism

Origins

• Age of Enlightenment –
• Anarchism –
• Classical Liberalism –

Libertarian theory and politics

• Anarcho-capitalism and minarchism
• Controversies within libertarianism
• Criticism of libertarianism
• Libertarian perspectives on intellectual property
• Libertarian movement
• Libertarian perspectives on LGBT rights
• List of libertarian political parties
• Libertarian theories of law
• Libertarianism and Objectivism

Libertarian ideals

These are concepts which, although not necessarily exclusive to libertarianism, are significant in historical and modern libertarian circles.

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• Civil liberties –
• Constitutionalism –
• Counter-economics –
• Dispute resolution organization –
• Economic freedom –
• Egalitarianism –
• Free market –
• Free society –
• Free trade –
• Free will –
• Freedom of association –
• Freedom of contract –
• Homestead principle –
• Individualism –
• Laissez-faire –
• Liberty –
• Limited government –
• Methodological individualism –
• Natural rights –
• Night watchman state –
• Non-aggression –
• Non-interventionism –
• Non-politics –
• Non-voting –
• Participatory economics –
• Polycentric law –
• Property –
• Private defense agency –
• Self-governance –
• Self-management –
• Self-ownership –
• Spontaneous order –
• Stateless society –
• Subjective theory of value –
• Tax resistance –
• Title-transfer theory of contract –
• Worker's self management –
• Voluntary association –
• Voluntary society –

Some notable libertarians

• Murray Bookchin –
• Kevin Carson –
• Gary Chartier –
• Frank Chodorov –
• Noam Chomsky –
• Ed Crane –
• Joseph Déjacque –
• Brian Doherty –
• Richard Epstein –
• David D. Friedman –
• Milton Friedman –
• Henry George –
• Nick Gillespie –
• Friedrich Hayek –
• Henry Hazlitt –
• Steven Horwitz –
• Stephan Kinsella –
• Rose Wilder Lane –
• Roderick T. Long –
• Carl Menger –
• Ludwig von Mises –
• Jeffrey Miron –
• Albert Jay Nock –
• Robert Nozick –
• Isabel Paterson –
• Sharon Presley –
• Ron Paul –
• Ayn Rand –
• Leonard Read –
• Sheldon Richman –
• Murray Rothbard –
• Joseph Schumpeter –
• Hans Sennholz –
• Henry David Thoreau –
• Leo Tolstoy –

See also

Libertarianism portal

• List of basic libertarianism topics
• List of libertarian organizations
• Liberalism
• Anti-state · Anti-war
• Anarcho-syndicalism
• Civil libertarianism
• Free-market environmentalism
• Fusionism
• Libertarian Democrat
• Libertarian Republican
• Libertarian transhumanism
• Small government

Categories

• Category:Libertarianism by country
• Category:Libertarians by nationality
• Category:Libertarianism by form

References

1. ^ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/libertarianism/
2. ^ Roderick T. Long (1998). "Towards a Libertarian Theory of Class" (PDF). Social Philosophy and Policy 15 (2): 303–349: at p. 304. doi:10.1017/S0265052500002028. http://www.praxeology.net/libclass-theory-part-1.pdf. 
3. ^ Watts, Duncan (2006). Understanding American Government and Politics (2nd ed.). Manchester University Press. pp. 386. ISBN 978-0719073274. 
4. ^ Free Talk Live, June 9, 2008

External links

• Outline of libertarianism entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• The Humble Libertarian is a libertarian resource and index of libertarian websites.
• Foundation for Economic Education is one of the oldest libertarian organizations in the United States.
• Libertarianism.com a non-profit site for Libertarianism.