List of libertarian political parties

Many countries and subnational political entities have libertarian political parties. Although these parties may describe themselves as "libertarian," their ideologies differ considerably and not all of them support all elements of the libertarian agenda. Some of these parties prefer the label classic liberal.

By country

Argentina

Liberal Libertarian Party (in Spanish, Partido Liberal Libertario)

Australia

Liberal Democratic Party (classical liberalism with libertarian elements)
Libertarian Party (not registered as a political party with the Australian electoral commission)

Denmark

Ecuador

Movimiento Libertario

Estonia

Estonian Reform Party (classical liberalism)

Finland

Liberals (classical liberalism)

France

Liberal Alternative (Alternative Libérale) (classical liberalism and libertarianism)
Liberal Democratic Party (classical liberalism and liberal-conservative)

Germany

Free Democratic Party (classical liberalism)^[1]

Greece

Liberal Alliance (classical liberalism)

Hong Kong

Liberal Party (libertarian in many aspects)

Iceland

Liberal Party (Frjálslyndi flokkurinn) (libertarianism, conservative liberalism)

Ireland

has no libertarian party

Israel

Independence (1981 and 1984)

Has no current Libertarian Party

The Manhigut Yehudit faction of Likud, led by Moshe Feiglin.^[2]

Italy

Italian Radicals (social liberalism, liberal, libertarian left)
Libertarian Movement (Movimento Libertario, ML) (libertarian free market anarcho-capitalist)
Liberal Reformers (Departed in March 2009 as an independent party, such as merged faction among the People of Freedom and after a scission in Future and Freedom for Italy)

Japan

Liberal League Jiyu Rengo (自由連合) (classical liberal with many libertarian aspects) (disbanded in 2005)
Your Party Minna no To (みんなの党) (conservative liberalism with many libertarian aspects)

Netherlands

Libertarian Party (Libertarische Partij)

New Zealand

Norway

Det Liberale Folkepartiet

Philippines

Movimiento Calderón (Filipino Libertarian) - not yet registered. Based in Metro Manila with local affiliates in Rizal Province, Negros Occidental, and Cagayan de Oro.

Poland

Congress of the New Right (Kongres Nowej Prawicy) - (conservative liberal, paleolibertarianism, nationalist)
Real Politics Union (Unia Polityki Realnej) - (conservative liberal, paleolibertarianism, nationalist) Merged in Congress of the New Right on 2011

Russia

Russian Libertarian Movement (Rossiyskoye Libertarianskoye Dvizhenie (RLD) disbanded in 2006)
Libertarian Party of Russia
Freedom Party

Slovakia

Spain

Individual Freedom Party (Partido de la Libertad Individual (P-Lib))

Sweden

Libertarian Party (Sweden) [1]

Switzerland

Turkey

Liberal Democratic Party (classical liberalism with libertarian aspects)

Venezuela

Civil Resistance (in Spanish, Resistencia Civil) (classical liberalism)

United Kingdom

Libertarian Party UK
United Kingdom Independence Party (conservative with classical liberalism and libertarian elements)

United States

Boston Tea Party
Jefferson Republican Party (Paleolibertarianism)
Libertarian Party (largest libertarian-leaning party in the World)
Personal Choice Party

Footnotes

^ "Libertarianism". Encyclopædia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2007.
^ Feiglin has never called himself "libertarian", but libertarian principles clearly underlie his platform. For example, in "Open Hunting Season on the Ultra-Orthodox", he wrote, "What is not clear is why the funds that the Ultra-Orthodox get is called 'extortion', while what the Broadcasting Authority or the theatre get from our taxes is called 'democracy at its finest'. As a rule, I would be pleased if the state would pay no one. A community that would like theatre should allocate funds for theatre. A community that would like full-time Torah study should allocate money for Torah students. A community that would like both should fund both. I am a proponent of minimal state intervention in every area except for security and justice. Until that goal is accomplished, though, we have to live with Big Brother and the regime that is still tainted with socialism from the days of Mapai." Here, Feiglin explicitly says he is a "proponent of minimal state intervention in every area except for security and justice", which is a textbook case of minarchist libertarianism. In "Thou Shall Not Steal: Not Even from Rich Oil Tycoons", he wrote, "The solution for our problem with capitalism is not to institute socialism. Socialism is simply a sophisticated form of robbery that makes everybody poor. An ideology that rejects the sanctity of one's possessions will ultimately lead to a complete contempt for the sanctity of life. It is no coincidence that Stalin and Mao were the greatest murderers in the history of mankind. For some reason, we also seem to have forgotten that 'Nazism' is a shortened version of "National Socialism." Socialism is the last thing we need." What is especially significant is that his equation of Nazism and socialism is usually one confined to radically libertarian adherents of the Austrian School of economics, who, regarding Nazism, follow Ludwig von Mises's book Omnipotent Government, which equates Nazism and socialism; cf. George Reisman, Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian: "The identification of Nazi Germany as a socialist state was one of the many great contributions of Ludwig von Mises. When one remembers that the word 'Nazi' was an abbreviation for "der Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiters Partei — in English translation: the National Socialist German Workers' Party — Mises's identification might not appear all that noteworthy. For what should one expect the economic system of a country ruled by a party with 'socialist' in its name to be but socialism? Nevertheless, apart from Mises and his readers, practically no one thinks of Nazi Germany as a socialist state. It is far more common to believe that it represented a form of capitalism, which is what the Communists and all other Marxists have claimed." Thus, for Feiglin to classify Nazism as socialistic, which almost nobody but followers of Mises does, is quite significant.

[Britannica_Libertarianism-1] "Libertarianism". Encyclopædia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2007.

[2] Feiglin has never called himself "libertarian", but libertarian principles clearly underlie his platform. For example, in "Open Hunting Season on the Ultra-Orthodox", he wrote, "What is not clear is why the funds that the Ultra-Orthodox get is called 'extortion', while what the Broadcasting Authority or the theatre get from our taxes is called 'democracy at its finest'. As a rule, I would be pleased if the state would pay no one. A community that would like theatre should allocate funds for theatre. A community that would like full-time Torah study should allocate money for Torah students. A community that would like both should fund both. I am a proponent of minimal state intervention in every area except for security and justice. Until that goal is accomplished, though, we have to live with Big Brother and the regime that is still tainted with socialism from the days of Mapai." Here, Feiglin explicitly says he is a "proponent of minimal state intervention in every area except for security and justice", which is a textbook case of minarchist libertarianism. In "Thou Shall Not Steal: Not Even from Rich Oil Tycoons", he wrote, "The solution for our problem with capitalism is not to institute socialism. Socialism is simply a sophisticated form of robbery that makes everybody poor. An ideology that rejects the sanctity of one's possessions will ultimately lead to a complete contempt for the sanctity of life. It is no coincidence that Stalin and Mao were the greatest murderers in the history of mankind. For some reason, we also seem to have forgotten that 'Nazism' is a shortened version of "National Socialism." Socialism is the last thing we need." What is especially significant is that his equation of Nazism and socialism is usually one confined to radically libertarian adherents of the Austrian School of economics, who, regarding Nazism, follow Ludwig von Mises's book Omnipotent Government, which equates Nazism and socialism; cf. George Reisman, Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian: "The identification of Nazi Germany as a socialist state was one of the many great contributions of Ludwig von Mises. When one remembers that the word 'Nazi' was an abbreviation for "der Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiters Partei — in English translation: the National Socialist German Workers' Party — Mises's identification might not appear all that noteworthy. For what should one expect the economic system of a country ruled by a party with 'socialist' in its name to be but socialism? Nevertheless, apart from Mises and his readers, practically no one thinks of Nazi Germany as a socialist state. It is far more common to believe that it represented a form of capitalism, which is what the Communists and all other Marxists have claimed." Thus, for Feiglin to classify Nazism as socialistic, which almost nobody but followers of Mises does, is quite significant.

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