Liberalism/Libertarianism

Libertarianism is a collection of political philosophies that uphold liberty as a core principle.Libertarianism http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/339321/libertarianism Encyclopædia Britannica Boaz, David David Boaz January 30, 2009 2017-02-21 ...libertarianism, political philosophy that takes individual liberty to be the primary political value. Libertarians seek to maximize autonomy and freedom of choice, emphasizing political freedom, voluntary association, and the importance of individual judgment.Woodcock George Anarchism: A History Of Libertarian Ideas And Movements 2004 Broadview Press Peterborough, Ont. 9781551116297 16 for the very nature of the libertarian attitude—its rejection of dogma, its deliberate avoidance of rigidly systematic theory, and, above all, its stress on extreme freedom of choice and on the primacy of the individual judgmenthttps://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/key-concepts-libertarianism Key Concepts of Libertarianism Boaz David 1999 Cato Institute 25 January 2017 Libertarians share a skepticism of authority and state power. However, they diverge on the scope of their opposition to existing political and economic systems. Various schools of libertarian thought offer a range of views regarding the legitimate functions of state and private power, often calling to restrict or to dissolve coercive social institutions. Some libertarians advocate laissez-faire capitalism and strong private property rights,Hussain Syed B. Encyclopedia of Capitalism. Vol. II : H-R. 2004 Facts on File Inc New York 0816052247 492 https://books.google.com/books?id=FbVZAAAAYAAJ In the modern world, political ideologies are largely defined by their attitude towards capitalism. Marxists want to overthrow it, liberals to curtail it extensively, conservatives to curtail it moderately. Those who maintain that capitalism is a excellent economic system, unfairly maligned, with little or no need for corrective government policy, are generally known as libertarians. such as in land, infrastructure, and natural resources. Others, notably libertarian socialists,Long, Joseph.W (1996). "Toward a Libertarian Theory of Class." Social Philosophy and Policy. 15:2 p. 310. "When I speak of 'libertarianism'... I mean all three of these very different movements. It might be protested that LibCap, LibSoc and LibPop are too different from one another to be treated as aspects of a single point of view. But they do share a common—or at least an overlapping—intellectual ancestry." seek to abolish capitalism and private ownership of the means of production in favor of their common or cooperative ownership and management, viewing private property as a barrier to freedom and liberty.Carlson, Jennifer D. (2012). "Libertarianism". In Miller, Wilburn R., ed. The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America. London: Sage Publications. p. 1007. 1412988764. "There exist three major camps in libertarian thought: right-libertarianism, socialist libertarianism, and left-libertarianism ... socialist libertarians ... advocate for the simultaneous abolition of both government and capitalism."Kropotkin Petr Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings 1927 Courier Dover Publications 9780486119861 150 It attacks not only capital, but also the main sources of the power of capitalism: law, authority, and the StateRadical priorities Otero Carlos Peregrin AK Press Noam Chomsky (book author) 2003 1-902593-69-3 3rd Oakland, CA 26 Introduction to Chomsky's Social Theory Carlos Peregrin Otero; Radical priorities Chomsky Noam AK Press 2003 1-902593-69-3 3rd Oakland, CA 227–28 Carlos Peregrin OteroVallentyne Peter Edward N. Zalta The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Libertarianism http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2009/entries/libertarianism/ 2010-03-05 Spring 2009 March 2009 Stanford University Stanford, CA Libertarianism is committed to full self-ownership. A distinction can be made, however, between right-libertarianism and left-libertarianism, depending on the stance taken on how natural resources can be owned An additional line of division is between minarchists and anarchists. While minarchists think that a minimal centralized government is necessary, anarchists and anarcho-capitalists propose to completely eliminate the state.Caplan Bryan Bryan Caplan Ronald Hamowy Ronald Hamowy The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism Anarchism https://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC 2008 SAGE Publications SAGE; Cato Institute Thousand Oaks, CA 10.4135/9781412965811.n7 978-1-4129-6580-4 750831024 2008009151 10–13 Libertarianism puts severe limits on morally permissible government action. If one takes its strictures seriously, does libertarianism require the abolition of government, logically reducing the position to anarchism? Robert Nozick effectively captures this dilemma: 'Individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its official may do.' Libertarian political philosophers have extensively debated this question, and many conclude that the answer is 'Nothing'. Friedman, David D. (2008). "libertarianism". The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. 2nd Edition. "Libertarians differ among themselves in the degree to which they rely on rights-based or consequentialist arguments and on how far they take their conclusions, ranging from classical liberals, who wish only to drastically reduce government, to anarcho-capitalists who would replace all useful government functions with private alternatives." Text was used with some modification from the Wikipedia page Libertarianism, under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License