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Some members of the U.S. libertarian movement, including the late Samuel Edward Konkin,<ref>Konkin was the founder of [[agorism]], author of the ''[http://agorism.info/docs/NewLibertarianManifesto.pdf New Libertarian Manifesto]'', and founder of the [http://www.geocities.com/mllweb/ Movement of the Libertarian Left]</ref> and such members of the [[Left-libertarianism|Alliance of the Libertarian Left]]<ref>[http://all-left.net/ The Alliance of the Libertarian Left] "is a multi-tendency coalition of mutualists, agorists, voluntaryists, geolibertarians, left-Rothbardians, green libertarians, dialectical anarchists, radical minarchists, and others on the libertarian left, united by an opposition to statism and militarism, to cultural intolerance (including sexism, racism, and homophobia), and to the prevailing corporatist capitalism falsely called a free market; as well as by an emphasis on education, direct action, and building alternative institutions, rather than on electoral politics, as our chief strategy for achieving liberation."</ref> as [[Roderick Long]],<ref>Long is a well-known writer on left-libertarian [[zine]]s and blogs. One of his descriptions of the political spectrum is in his article for the [[Ludwig von Mises Institute]] entitled [http://www.mises.org/story/2099 Rothbard's "Left and Right": Forty Years Later]</ref> and [[Gary Chartier]] support property rights and identify themselves with the political left for a variety of reasons. They tend to oppose [[intellectual property]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Long |first=Roderick |author-link=Roderick Long |contribution=url-http://praxeology.net/anticopyright.htm |publisher=Molinari Institute}}</ref> war, and state policies they believe cause poverty.<ref>See Charles Johnson, "[http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/scratching-by-how-government-creates-poverty-as-we-know-it/ Scratching By: How Government Creates Poverty As We Know It]"</ref>
Some members of the U.S. libertarian movement, including the late Samuel Edward Konkin,<ref>Konkin was the founder of [[agorism]], author of the ''[http://agorism.info/docs/NewLibertarianManifesto.pdf New Libertarian Manifesto]'', and founder of the [http://www.geocities.com/mllweb/ Movement of the Libertarian Left]</ref> and such members of the [[Left-libertarianism|Alliance of the Libertarian Left]]<ref>[http://all-left.net/ The Alliance of the Libertarian Left] "is a multi-tendency coalition of mutualists, agorists, voluntaryists, geolibertarians, left-Rothbardians, green libertarians, dialectical anarchists, radical minarchists, and others on the libertarian left, united by an opposition to statism and militarism, to cultural intolerance (including sexism, racism, and homophobia), and to the prevailing corporatist capitalism falsely called a free market; as well as by an emphasis on education, direct action, and building alternative institutions, rather than on electoral politics, as our chief strategy for achieving liberation."</ref> as [[Roderick Long]],<ref>Long is a well-known writer on left-libertarian [[zine]]s and blogs. One of his descriptions of the political spectrum is in his article for the [[Ludwig von Mises Institute]] entitled [http://www.mises.org/story/2099 Rothbard's "Left and Right": Forty Years Later]</ref> and [[Gary Chartier]] support property rights and identify themselves with the political left for a variety of reasons. They tend to oppose [[intellectual property]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Long |first=Roderick |author-link=Roderick Long |contribution=url-http://praxeology.net/anticopyright.htm |publisher=Molinari Institute}}</ref> war, and state policies they believe cause poverty.<ref>See Charles Johnson, "[http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/scratching-by-how-government-creates-poverty-as-we-know-it/ Scratching By: How Government Creates Poverty As We Know It]"</ref>

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The term "libertarianism" is also sometimes used as a synonym for [[anarchism]], especially outside the U.S., which some say is the original meaning of the term; hence, under that definition, "libertarian socialism" means "socialist anarchism".<ref>Noam Chomsky, Carlos Peregrín Otero. Language and Politics. AK Press, 2004, p. 739.</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Perlin |first=Terry M. |title=Contemporary Anarchism |publisher=Transaction Publishers |year=1979 |page=40|isbn=0878550976}}</ref> , Libertarian socialists promote [[Free association (communism and anarchism)|free association]] in place of government and private ownership and control over the [[means of production]].<ref name="consistent" />

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Political philosophies commonly described as libertarian socialist include: most varieties of [[anarchism]] (especially [[anarchist communism]], [[Collectivist anarchism|anarchist collectivism]], [[anarcho-syndicalism]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Sims |first=Franwa |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=The Anacostia Diaries As It Is |year=2006 |publisher=Lulu Press |location= |isbn= |page=160}}</ref>), [[social ecology]], some versions of [[individualist anarchism]]<ref>Murray Bookchin, ''Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism''; [[Robert Graham (historian)|Robert Graham]], ''The General Idea of Proudhon's Revolution''</ref>, [[libertarian municipalism]],<ref>Bookchin, Murray. 'Post-Scarcity Anarchism' AK Press (2004) p.xl</ref> and [[council communism]].<ref>Chomsky, Noam. 'Chomsky on Democracy and Education' Routledge (2002) p.133</ref>



===Libertarian conservatism===
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Some "libertarian constitutionalists" like U.S. Representative [[Ron Paul]] believe liberty can be obtained through proper interpretation of the [[United States Constitution]], something that would not allow federal incursions on the economy and civil liberties.<ref name="oldright">Anthony Gregory. [http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/oct/06/00029/ What's left of the old right].</ref><ref>Anthony Gregory, [http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory179.html A Revolutionary Manifesto]</ref> Other libertarians critique [[constitutionalism]] for failure of its proponents to check the growth of government power.<ref>Jørn K. Baltzersen. [http://www.lewrockwell.com/baltzersen/baltzersen23.html For Ceremonies and Emergencies]. 2006-06-22.</ref><ref>Butler Shaffer. [http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/ebook/138.html The Death of the American State].</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo74.html |title=Constitutional Futility |last=DiLorenzo |first=Thomas |publisher=LewRockwell.com |accessdate=2008-07-02}}</ref>
Some "libertarian constitutionalists" like U.S. Representative [[Ron Paul]] believe liberty can be obtained through proper interpretation of the [[United States Constitution]], something that would not allow federal incursions on the economy and civil liberties.<ref name="oldright">Anthony Gregory. [http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/oct/06/00029/ What's left of the old right].</ref><ref>Anthony Gregory, [http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory179.html A Revolutionary Manifesto]</ref> Other libertarians critique [[constitutionalism]] for failure of its proponents to check the growth of government power.<ref>Jørn K. Baltzersen. [http://www.lewrockwell.com/baltzersen/baltzersen23.html For Ceremonies and Emergencies]. 2006-06-22.</ref><ref>Butler Shaffer. [http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/ebook/138.html The Death of the American State].</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo74.html |title=Constitutional Futility |last=DiLorenzo |first=Thomas |publisher=LewRockwell.com |accessdate=2008-07-02}}</ref>

===Libertarian socialism===
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The term "libertarianism" is also sometimes used as a synonym for [[anarchism]], especially outside the U.S., which some say is the original meaning of the term; hence, under that definition, "libertarian socialism" means "socialist anarchism".<ref>Noam Chomsky, Carlos Peregrín Otero. Language and Politics. AK Press, 2004, p. 739.</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Perlin |first=Terry M. |title=Contemporary Anarchism |publisher=Transaction Publishers |year=1979 |page=40|isbn=0878550976}}</ref> , Libertarian socialists promote [[Free association (communism and anarchism)|free association]] in place of government and private ownership and control over the [[means of production]].<ref name="consistent" />

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Political philosophies commonly described as libertarian socialist include: most varieties of [[anarchism]] (especially [[anarchist communism]], [[Collectivist anarchism|anarchist collectivism]], [[anarcho-syndicalism]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Sims |first=Franwa |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=The Anacostia Diaries As It Is |year=2006 |publisher=Lulu Press |location= |isbn= |page=160}}</ref>), [[social ecology]], some versions of [[individualist anarchism]]<ref>Murray Bookchin, ''Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism''; [[Robert Graham (historian)|Robert Graham]], ''The General Idea of Proudhon's Revolution''</ref>, [[libertarian municipalism]],<ref>Bookchin, Murray. 'Post-Scarcity Anarchism' AK Press (2004) p.xl</ref> and [[council communism]].<ref>Chomsky, Noam. 'Chomsky on Democracy and Education' Routledge (2002) p.133</ref>


===Libertarian transhumanism===
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However, minarchists often disagree on the level of government centralization. This ranges from the centralist minarchists who support the enforcement of laws at the global or national governments, to the middle-ground minarchists who advocate [[states' rights]] or increased autonomy at the state level, and to the decentralist minarchists who think that every city or town should have its own government. Such proponents of extreme decentralization include [[Albert Jay Nock]] and Jeffersonian republicans <ref name="nock">[[Albert Jay Nock]]. [http://www.mises.org/books/jefferson.pdf Jefferson]. Brace and Company, 1926. p. 199. "Thus [Jefferson] was quite regularly for State rights against the Union, for county rights against the State, for township rights or village rights against the county, and for private rights against all."</ref> and, of course, [[Thomas Jefferson]] himself.
However, minarchists often disagree on the level of government centralization. This ranges from the centralist minarchists who support the enforcement of laws at the global or national governments, to the middle-ground minarchists who advocate [[states' rights]] or increased autonomy at the state level, and to the decentralist minarchists who think that every city or town should have its own government. Such proponents of extreme decentralization include [[Albert Jay Nock]] and Jeffersonian republicans <ref name="nock">[[Albert Jay Nock]]. [http://www.mises.org/books/jefferson.pdf Jefferson]. Brace and Company, 1926. p. 199. "Thus [Jefferson] was quite regularly for State rights against the Union, for county rights against the State, for township rights or village rights against the county, and for private rights against all."</ref> and, of course, [[Thomas Jefferson]] himself.

===Mutualism===
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[[Mutualism (economic theory)|Mutualism]], as a libertarian socialist<ref>{{cite book |title=What is Mutualism? |last=Swartz |first=Clarence Lee |publisher=Modern Publishers}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Libertarian and Mutualist Essays on Free Banking, Free Land and Individualism |last=Fisher |first=Vardis |publisher=Revisionist Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of Philosophy |last=Edwards |first=Paul |page=113}}</ref> [[Free-market anarchism|free-market anarchist]] school of thought, can be traced to the writings of [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]] that envisioned a society where each person might possess a means of production either individually or collectively, with trade representing equivalent amounts of labor. Integral to the scheme was the establishment of a mutual credit bank that would lend to producers at an interest rate only high enough to cover the costs of administration.<ref>Miller, David. 1987. "Mutualism." The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Thought. Blackwell Publishing. p. 11</ref> Mutualism is based on a [[labor theory of value]] that holds that when labor or its product is sold, it ought to receive in exchange, goods or services embodying, "the amount of labor necessary to produce an article of exactly similar and equal utility."<ref>Tandy, Francis D., 1896, ''Voluntary Socialism'', chapter 6, paragraph 15.</ref>

Some mutualists believe that if the state did not intervene, economic law would ensure that individuals receive no more income than that in proportion to the amount of labor they exert.<ref>Tandy, Francis D., 1896, ''Voluntary Socialism'', chapter 6, paragraphs 9, 10 & 22.<br />Carson, Kevin, 2004, ''Studies in Mutualist Political Economy'', chapter 2 (after Meek & Oppenheimer).</ref> Mutualists oppose the idea of individuals receiving an income through loans, investments, and rent, as they believe these individuals are not laboring. Some of them hold that if state intervention ceased, these types of incomes would disappear.<ref>Tandy, Francis D., 1896, ''Voluntary Socialism'', chapter 6, paragraph 19.<br />Carson, Kevin, 2004, ''Studies in Mutualist Political Economy'', chapter 2 (after Ricardo, Dobb & Oppenheimer).</ref> Though Proudhon opposed this type of income, he expressed: "... I never meant to ... forbid or suppress, by sovereign decree, ground rent and interest on capital. I believe that all these forms of human activity should remain free and optional for all."<ref>''Solution of the Social Problem'', 1848–49.</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

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Libertarianism is advocacy for individual liberty[1] and libertarians all support a concept of liberty. The term is sometimes used as a synonym for anarchism, with that use being especially common outside the United States, while the American use of term includes non-anarchist free-market political philosophy.[2] There is broad disagreement among those called libertarians on specific political and economic considerations. Those who call themselves libertarians do not advocate any single or set of principles.[3] They may be libertarian socialists,[4] anarchist-socialist or anarcho-capitalists, supporting or opposing property rights. Libertarians may embrace a variety of beliefs about political structures ranging from minimization of the state to complete abolition of the state.[5][6][7][8] Others also seek complete elimination of any hierarchical imposition of authority and therefore oppose capitalism and other institutions viewed as coercive.[4] The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy describes the minimal state as providing law enforcement, a judicial assembly, and armed forces, and, also describes the anarcho-capitalist view which holds that a government is unnecessary because private companies working for profit should provide the court systems, military, and police forces.[3]

Libertarians have a variety of views on natural resources.[9][10][11][12][13] There is one faction of left-libertarianism, rooted in nineteenth century socialism[14], which supports freedom of action of individuals from interference by state or other actors but are against unfettered individual ownership of natural resources and the means of production.[10] However, other left-libertarians take the opposite view which strongly affirms the classical liberal and libertarian ideas of non-aggression and free markets.[15] Right-libertarianism, which is rooted in nineteenth century classical liberalism, considers property ownership to be an inviolable natural right.[10]

Individuals considered to be "right-libertarian" are difficult to place in the conventional left/right political spectrum as they may show strong support for traditionally left-wing issues, such as broad freedom from search and seizure, freedom of the press, and other civil liberties.[10] Consequently some libertarians reject being described as "left" or "right"[16]; others reject being described as "anarchists".[citation needed] Among those that may be considered "right libertarian," there is also divergence in that some of these are libertarian moralists and some others are libertarian consequentialists.

The term "libertarianism" is also sometimes used as a synonym for anarchism, especially outside the U.S., which some say is the original meaning of the term; hence, under that definition, "libertarian socialism" means "socialist anarchism".[17][18]

History

Etymology

The term libertarian in a metaphysical or philosophical sense was first used by late-Enlightenment free-thinkers to refer to those who believed in free will, as opposed to determinism.[19] The first recorded use was in 1789 by William Belsham in a discussion of free will and in opposition to "necessitarian" (or determinist) views.[20][21]

The use of the word 'libertarian' to describe a set of political positions can be tracked to the French cognate, "Libertaire", which was coined in 1857 by French anarchist communist Joseph Déjacque who used the term to distinguish his libertarian communist approach from the mutualism advocated by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.[14][22][14][23] Hence the term "libertaire" has been used as a synonym for left wing anarchism or libertarian socialism since the 1890s.[24]

In the 1950s in the United States many with classical liberal beliefs began to describe themselves as "libertarian."[25] Academics as well as proponents of the free market perspectives note that free market libertarianism has been successfully propagated beyond the US since the 1970s via think tanks and political parties [26][27] and that libertarianism is increasingly viewed worldwide as a free market position.[28][29] However Libertarian socialists Noam Chomsky, Colin Ward and others state that the term is still considered a synonym of anarchism in countries other than the US.[30][31][32]

Philosophical origins and history

Enlightenment ideas of individual liberty, limited government, peace and a free market were part of a growing movement in the 19th century. Peter Kropotkin's The Great French Revolution (1909) asserts that the principles of anarchism had their origin in the directly democratic sections of Paris.[33] According to the same author's 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica article on anarchism, the economic and, in particular, the mutual banking ideas of Proudhon were applied by supporters in the United States.[34] The article states that, "It would be impossible to represent here, in a short sketch, the penetration, on the one hand, of anarchist ideas into modern literature, and the influence, on the other hand, which the libertarian ideas of the best contemporary writers have exercised upon the development of anarchism." Writers he names include John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, Jean-Marie Guyau, Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée, Multatuli, Richard Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Lloyd Garrison and Henry David Thoreau.[35]

Numerous left libertarians or libertarian socialists around the world have labeled themselves as such throughout the 20th century.[36][37][38] The most significant manifestations at a mass level of libertarian groups opposed to the property principle have been revolutionary socialist workers' movements. Examples repeatedly cited in the literature include the American Industrial Workers of the World, the Makhnovist movement in Ukraine during the Russian revolution of 1917, the CNT and the FAI during the Spanish Civil War, and the Italian autonomist movement. The EZLN movement in Mexico has maintained a significance within Mexican politics since the early 1990s.

Some proponents within the growing movement for more civil liberties also pursued strong private property rights, and this movement came to be referred to as liberalism. While liberalism kept that meaning in most of the world, modern liberalism in the United States began to take a more statist approach to economic regulation.[39][40] While conservatism in Europe continued to mean conserving hierarchical class structures through state control of society and the economy, some conservatives in the United States began to refer to conserving traditions of liberty. This was especially true of the Old Right, who opposed the New Deal and U.S. military interventions in World War I and World War II.[41][42]

Those who held to the earlier liberal views began to call themselves market liberals, classic liberals or libertarians to distinguish themselves.[40] (Some limited government advocates still use the term "libertarianism" almost interchangeably with the term classical liberalism.)[43][44]

The Austrian School of economics, influenced by Frédéric Bastiat and later by Ludwig von Mises,[45] also had an impact on both economic teaching and right-libertarian principles.[46][47] It influenced economists, political philosophers, and theorists including Israel Kirzner and Murray Rothbard.

Ayn Rand's international bestsellers The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) and her books about her philosophy of Objectivism influenced modern libertarianism.[48] Two other women also published influential pro-freedom books in 1943, Rose Wilder Lane's The Discovery of Freedom and Isabel Paterson's The God of the Machine.[49]

Arizona United States Senator Barry Goldwater's libertarian-oriented challenge to authority had a major impact on the libertarian movement,[50] through his book The Conscience of a Conservative and his run for president in 1964.[51] Goldwater's speech writer, Karl Hess, became a leading libertarian writer and activist.[52]

The Vietnam War split the uneasy alliance between growing numbers of self-identified libertarians, anarchist libertarians, and more traditional conservatives who believed in limiting liberty to uphold moral virtues. Libertarians opposed to the war joined the draft resistance and peace movements and organisations such as Students for a Democratic Society. They began founding their own publications, like Murray Rothbard's The Libertarian Forum[53][54] and organizations like the Radical Libertarian Alliance.[55]

The split was aggravated at the 1969 Young Americans for Freedom convention, when more than 300 libertarians organized to take control of the organization from conservatives. The burning of a draft card in protest to a conservative proposal against draft resistance sparked physical confrontations among convention attendees, a walkout by a large number of libertarians, the creation of libertarian organizations like the Society for Individual Liberty, and efforts to recruit potential libertarians from conservative organizations.[56] The split was finalized in 1971 when conservative leader William F. Buckley, Jr., in a 1971 New York Times article, attempted to divorce libertarianism from the freedom movement. He wrote: "The ideological licentiousness that rages through America today makes anarchy attractive to the simple-minded. Even to the ingeniously simple-minded."[49]

In 1971, David Nolan and a few friends formed the Libertarian Party.[57] Attracting former Democrats, Republicans and independents, it has run a presidential candidate every election year since 1972. By 2006, polls showed that 15 percent of American voters identified themselves as libertarian.[58] Over the years, dozens of libertarian political parties have been formed worldwide. Educational organizations like the Center for Libertarian Studies and the Cato Institute were formed in the 1970s, and others have been created since then.[59]

Philosophical libertarianism gained a significant measure of recognition in academia with the publication of Harvard University professor Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia in 1974. The book won a National Book Award in 1975.[60] According to libertarian essayist Roy Childs, "Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia single-handedly established the legitimacy of libertarianism as a political theory in the world of academia."[61]

Libertarian principles

According to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

Libertarians are committed to the belief that individuals, and not states or groups of any other kind, are both ontologically and normatively primary; that individuals have rights against certain kinds of forcible interference on the part of others; that liberty, understood as non-interference, is the only thing that can be legitimately demanded of others as a matter of legal or political right; that robust property rights and the economic liberty that follows from their consistent recognition are of central importance in respecting individual liberty; that social order is not at odds with but develops out of individual liberty; that the only proper use of coercion is defensive or to rectify an error; that governments are bound by essentially the same moral principles as individuals; and that most existing and historical governments have acted improperly insofar as they have utilized coercion for plunder, aggression, redistribution, and other purposes beyond the protection of individual liberty.[62]

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy states "libertarianism holds that agents initially fully own themselves and have moral powers to acquire property rights in external things under certain conditions."[10] It notes that libertarianism is not a "right-wing" doctrine because of its opposition to laws restricting adult consensual sexual relationships and drug use, and its opposition to imposing religious views or practices and compulsory military service. The Stanford Encyclopedia further describes versions of libertarianism, such as “left-libertarianism” stating that this philosophy also endorses full self-ownership, but "differs on unappropriated natural resources (land, air, water, etc.)." "Right-libertarianism" holds that such resources may be appropriated by individuals while "left-libertarianism" holds that they belong to everyone and must be distributed in some egalitarian manner.[10]

The Nolan chart, used by some pro-property libertarians, expands upon the traditional "right-left" spectrum.

All schools of libertarianism support strong personal rights to life and liberty, though there is disagreement on the subject of private property. One relatively popular formulation of libertarianism supports free market capitalism[63][64][65] by advocating a right to private property, including property in the means of production,[66] minimal government regulation of that property, minimal taxation, and rejection of the welfare state, all within the context of the rule of law.[67][68][69] Some pro-property libertarians are anarchists who call for the elimination of the state.[70] A number of countries have libertarian parties that run candidates for political office.

Libertarian socialists, unlike right-wing libertarians, are opposed to structures of authority and hierarchy in personal relations and the larger social order.[23] Most notably they are opposed to state power and forms of private property such as capital.[71][72][73] These libertarians often believe in the abolition of private property and may be called non-propertarian or anti-propertarian.[74][75] They do not seek state solutions, instead looking to voluntary and popularly controlled associations.[76][77][78]

Isaiah Berlin's 1958 essay "Two Concepts of Liberty" describes a difference between negative liberty, which limits the power of the state to interfere, and positive liberty, in which a paternalistic state helps individuals achieve self-realization and self-determination. He believed these were rival and incompatible interpretations of liberty, and held that demands for positive liberty lead to authoritarianism.[79]

Libertarians contrast two ethical views: consequentialist libertarianism, which is support for a large degree of "liberty" because it leads to favorable consequences, such as prosperity or efficiency and deontological libertarianism (also known as "rights-theorist libertarianism," "natural rights libertarianism," or "libertarian moralism"), which is a philosophy based on belief in moral self-ownership and opposition to "initiation of force" and fraud.[failed verification] Others combine a hybrid of consequentialist and deontologist thinking.[80] Another view, contractarian libertarianism, holds that any legitimate authority of government derives not from the consent of the governed, but from contract or mutual agreement.[81][82][83]

Libertarians maintain that what is immoral for the individual must necessarily be immoral for all state agents and that the state should not be above the law.[84][85]

Libertarianism is not a complete moral or aesthetic theory; it is only a political theory, that is, the subset of moral theory that deals with the proper role of violence in social life.[86] Thus, while libertarianism holds that the state should not, for instance, forcibly prohibit prostitution, it makes no judgments on whether prostitution is an ethical activity; indeed, some libertarians condemn prostitution as immoral. Walter Block writes, "How, then, can we defend the immoral activities of some market actors? This stems from the philosophy of libertarianism, which is limited to analyzing one single problem. It asks, under what conditions is violence justified? And it answers, violence is justified only for purposes of defense, or in response to prior aggression, or in retaliation against it. This means, among other things, that government is not justified in fining, punishing, incarcerating, imposing death penalties on people who act in an immoral manner—as long as they refrain from threatening or initiating physical violence on the persons or property of others."[87]

Forms of libertarianism

Libertarian views vary in respect to how much state will survive in a libertarian society and how much private property should be held by individuals and groups. The following are the major forms of libertarianism:

Anarcho-capitalism

Main article: Anarcho-capitalism

Anarcho-capitalism is an individualist anarchist[88] political philosophy that advocates the elimination of the state and the elevation of the individual in a free market. Anarcho-capitalism has been described as an extreme form of libertarianism.[7][8] In an anarcho-capitalist society, law enforcement, courts, and all other security services are provided by voluntarily funded competitors such as private defense agencies rather than through compulsory taxation. Because personal and economic activities are regulated by the natural laws of the market through private law rather than through politics, crimes against the state and victimless crimes would be rendered moot.

Beyond their agreeing that security should be privately provided by market-based entities, proponents of free-market anarchism have varying opinions on other aspects of their philosophies, particularly justification, tactics and property rights.

Geolibertarianism

Main article: Geolibertarianism

Geolibertarianism is a political movement that strives to reconcile libertarianism and Georgism (or "geoism").[89][90] The term was coined by Fred Foldvary. Geolibertarians are advocates of geoism, which is the position that all land is a common asset to which all individuals have an equal right to access, and therefore if individuals claim the land as their property they must pay rent to the community for doing so. Rent need not be paid for the mere use of land, but only for the right to exclude others from that land, and for the protection of one's title by government. They simultaneously agree with the libertarian position that each individual has an exclusive right to the fruits of his or her labor as their private property, as opposed to this product being owned collectively by society or the community, and that "one's labor, wages, and the products of labor" should not be taxed. In agreement with traditional libertarians they advocate "full civil liberties, with no crimes unless there are victims who have been invaded." In the voluntary geolibertarianism described by Foldvary, rent would be collected by private associations with the opportunity to secede from a geocommunity if desired.[91]

Left-libertarianism

Main article: Left-libertarianism

Left-libertarianism is usually regarded as doctrine that has an egalitarian view concerning natural resources, believing that it is not legitimate for someone to claim private ownership of such resources to the detriment of others.[10][92][93] Most left libertarians support some form of income redistribution on the grounds of a claim by each individual to be entitled to an equal share of natural resources.[93] Left libertarianism is defended by contemporary theorists such as Peter Vallentyne, Hillel Steiner and Michael Otsuka.[94] The term is also sometimes used as a synonym for libertarian socialism.[95]

Some members of the U.S. libertarian movement, including the late Samuel Edward Konkin,[96] and such members of the Alliance of the Libertarian Left[97] as Roderick Long,[98] and Gary Chartier support property rights and identify themselves with the political left for a variety of reasons. They tend to oppose intellectual property,[99] war, and state policies they believe cause poverty.[100]

The term "libertarianism" is also sometimes used as a synonym for anarchism, especially outside the U.S., which some say is the original meaning of the term; hence, under that definition, "libertarian socialism" means "socialist anarchism".[101][102] , Libertarian socialists promote free association in place of government and private ownership and control over the means of production.[4]

Political philosophies commonly described as libertarian socialist include: most varieties of anarchism (especially anarchist communism, anarchist collectivism, anarcho-syndicalism[103]), social ecology, some versions of individualist anarchism[104], libertarian municipalism,[105] and council communism.[106]


Libertarian conservatism

Main article: Libertarian conservatism

Libertarian conservatism, also known as conservative libertarianism (and sometimes called right-libertarianism), describes certain political ideologies that attempt to meld libertarian and conservative ideas, often called "fusionism."[107][108] Anthony Gregory writes that right, or conservative, "libertarianism can refer to any number of varying and at times mutually exclusive political orientations" such as being "interested mainly in 'economic freedoms'"; following the "conservative lifestyle of right-libertarians"; seeking "others to embrace their own conservative lifestyle"; considering big business "as a great victim of the state"; favoring a "strong national defense"; and having "an Old Right opposition to empire."[109]

Conservatives hold that shared values, morals, standards, and traditions are necessary for social order while libertarians consider individual liberty as the highest value.[110] Laurence M. Vance writes: "Some libertarians consider libertarianism to be a lifestyle rather than a political philosophy... They apparently don't know the difference between libertarianism and libertinism."[111] However, Edward Feser emphasizes that libertarianism does not require individuals to reject traditional conservative values.[107]

"Paleolibertarianism" is a school of thought devised by Lew Rockwell and the late Murray Rothbard. Rockwell no longer favours the use of the term "paleolibertarian".[112] Closely associated with the Austrian School of economics, most paleolibertarians identify as anarcho-capitalist. Though they advocate the elimination of the state, paleolibertarians disagree with other libertarians on reforming the state, such as illegal immigration and the legitimacy of state property.[113]

Some "libertarian constitutionalists" like U.S. Representative Ron Paul believe liberty can be obtained through proper interpretation of the United States Constitution, something that would not allow federal incursions on the economy and civil liberties.[114][115] Other libertarians critique constitutionalism for failure of its proponents to check the growth of government power.[116][117][118]

Libertarian transhumanism

Main article: Libertarian transhumanism

Libertarian transhumanism asserts that the principle of self-ownership is fundamental to both libertarianism and transhumanism. The philosophy advocates free market individualism as the best vehicle for technological progress and the "right to human enhancement."[119][120] Some criticize it as utopian, overly reliant on technology or biological fetishism.[121][122][123]

Minarchism

Main article: Minarchism

Minarchism refers to the belief in a state limited to police forces, courts, and a military. In minarchism, the state neither regulates nor intervenes in personal choices and business practices, except to protect against aggression, breach of contract, and fraud.[124][125] Both market anarchists and minarchists oppose victimless crimes, the War on Drugs, compulsory education, and conscription at all levels of government.[125]

However, minarchists often disagree on the level of government centralization. This ranges from the centralist minarchists who support the enforcement of laws at the global or national governments, to the middle-ground minarchists who advocate states' rights or increased autonomy at the state level, and to the decentralist minarchists who think that every city or town should have its own government. Such proponents of extreme decentralization include Albert Jay Nock and Jeffersonian republicans [126] and, of course, Thomas Jefferson himself.

See also

References

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  12. ^ Hans-Hermann Hoppe's Anarcho-Capitalism: An Annotated Bibliography presents a long list of individuals who use both terms.
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  15. ^ Writing before the rise of the Carson-Long school of left-libertarianism, historian of American anarchism David DeLeon was disinclined to treat any market-oriented variant of libertarianism as leftist; see David DeLeon, The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP 1978) 123.
  16. ^ It has been proposed instead that libertarianism be defined as the northern region on an axis that ranges from north/libertarian (or state-free) to south/authoritarian (or state- controlled).J.C. Lester (1994). "The evolution of the political compass (and why libertarianism is not right-wing)". Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems. 17 (3). Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems: 231–241. doi:10.1016/1061-7361(94)90011-6.
    • Brendon Swedlow writes that 50 years of research on public opinion shows that a one-dimensional model of ideology is a poor description of political attitudes for the overwhelming proportion of people virtually everywhere.Brendon Swedlow (June 2008). "Beyond liberal and conservative: Two-dimensional conceptions of ideology and the structure of political attitudes and values". Journal of Political Ideologies. 13 (2). Journal of Political Ideologies: 157–180. doi:10.1080/13569310802075969.
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  72. ^ Ehrlich, Howard J Reinventing Anarchy, Again AK Press, 1996, p.153..."Not only is anarchism inherently feminist. It also goes beyond feminism in its fundamental opposition to all forms of power, hierarchy, and domination."
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  95. ^ e.g. Faatz, Chris, "Toward[s] a Libertarian Socialism."
  96. ^ Konkin was the founder of agorism, author of the New Libertarian Manifesto, and founder of the Movement of the Libertarian Left
  97. ^ The Alliance of the Libertarian Left "is a multi-tendency coalition of mutualists, agorists, voluntaryists, geolibertarians, left-Rothbardians, green libertarians, dialectical anarchists, radical minarchists, and others on the libertarian left, united by an opposition to statism and militarism, to cultural intolerance (including sexism, racism, and homophobia), and to the prevailing corporatist capitalism falsely called a free market; as well as by an emphasis on education, direct action, and building alternative institutions, rather than on electoral politics, as our chief strategy for achieving liberation."
  98. ^ Long is a well-known writer on left-libertarian zines and blogs. One of his descriptions of the political spectrum is in his article for the Ludwig von Mises Institute entitled Rothbard's "Left and Right": Forty Years Later
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  100. ^ See Charles Johnson, "Scratching By: How Government Creates Poverty As We Know It"
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  102. ^ Perlin, Terry M. (1979). Contemporary Anarchism. Transaction Publishers. p. 40. ISBN 0878550976.
  103. ^ Sims, Franwa (2006). The Anacostia Diaries As It Is. Lulu Press. p. 160. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
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  126. ^ Albert Jay Nock. Jefferson. Brace and Company, 1926. p. 199. "Thus [Jefferson] was quite regularly for State rights against the Union, for county rights against the State, for township rights or village rights against the county, and for private rights against all."

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