libertarians
Minimal government advocates
Libertarians are people who advocate for minimal government intervention in personal and economic affairs.
The philosophy emphasizes individual liberty, free markets, and private property rights.
In American politics, the Libertarian Party represents these views, though many libertarians identify with the broader philosophy without party membership.
He described himself as a libertarian who opposed both drug laws and corporate subsidies.
Commerce without state intervention
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- laissez-faireNoninterference in commerce
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
- privatizationState sells public assets
entrepreneurship · trade · competition · sound money · gold standard · cryptocurrency · Bitcoin · flat tax
Doctrine of minimal governance
- anarcho-capitalismStateless free-market ideology
- objectivismBelief in external truths
- natural rightsFreedoms inherent to personhood
- individual rightsFreedoms held by persons
limited government · self-ownership · spontaneous order · Austrian economics · Hayek · Rand · Friedman · Locke
Depending on oneself alone
- personal responsibilityDuty to own consequences
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- independenceFreedom from external control
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
consent · voluntary association · free will · privacy · self-expression · nonconformity · meritocracy · personal freedom
Philosophy rejecting state authority
- civil disobediencePeaceful refusal to obey
- tax resistanceRefusing to pay duties
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
- secessionFormal withdrawal from union
Uninvolved outside entity
- Tea PartySmall-government advocacy movement
- constitutionalismGovernance bound by fundamental laws
- states' rightsProvincial governmental autonomy
- federalismDivided governmental authority system
Ron Paul · term limits · civil liberties · drug legalization · immigration · non-interventionism · anti-war · foreign policy
free market
Commerce without state intervention
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- laissez-faireNoninterference in commerce
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
privatization · entrepreneurship · trade · competition · sound money · gold standard · cryptocurrency · Bitcoin · flat tax · price signals
classical liberalism
Doctrine of minimal governance
- anarcho-capitalismStateless free-market ideology
- objectivismBelief in external truths
- natural rightsFreedoms inherent to personhood
individual rights · limited government · self-ownership · spontaneous order · Austrian economics · Hayek · Rand · Friedman · Locke
self-reliance
Depending on oneself alone
- personal responsibilityDuty to own consequences
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- independenceFreedom from external control
self-determination · consent · voluntary association · free will · privacy · self-expression · nonconformity · meritocracy · personal freedom · bodily autonomy
anarchism
Philosophy rejecting state authority
- civil disobediencePeaceful refusal to obey
- tax resistanceRefusing to pay duties
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
third party
Uninvolved outside entity
- Tea PartySmall-government advocacy movement
- constitutionalismGovernance bound by fundamental laws
- states' rightsProvincial governmental autonomy
Ron Paul · federalism · term limits · civil liberties · drug legalization · immigration · non-interventionism · anti-war · foreign policy · police reform
- Political Factionsconservatives, Republicans, right wing, far right, hard right
- free marketersAdam Smith, Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, free traders, laissez-faire
- believersbeliever, believers, adherent, devotee, theist
- dissentersdissenter, dissenters, dissidents, dissident, nonconformists
- reformersreformers, reformer, social reformers, social reformer, political reformer
- Anti-Communistsdefectors, dissidents, counterrevolutionaries, freedom fighters, Joseph McCarthy
libertariansstatists
Advocates for government authority
authoritarians · totalitarians · fascists · autocrats · collectivists
libertarianscollectivists
Group-priority ideology adherents
communitarians · socialists · communists · Marxists · Maoists
- Libertarian PartyPro-freedom political organization