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  LIBERTARIAN /  LEFT ANARCHIST 

I oppose 1) taxes beyond those needed to provide law enforcement / national defense, 2) government interference with free market forces, and 3) laws limiting individual freedom--restricting speech / public expression, limiting firearms, requiring military service, making certain acts crimes where there’s no victim, restrictions on private property use, etc. Freedom is protected by such property, so governments should not appropriate it for public welfare. (Note: Libertarians preaching abolition of government are often called anarcho-capitalists.  Left anarchists also seek abolition of the state, but value egalitarianism and would abandon or vastly reduce private property rights. They oppose government, not order, and would replace it with free associations. Co-ops & communes would be key units in the economy.)

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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #50A: Libertarian

Classical Liberalism  (from online encyclopedia)

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Libertarianism and Objectivism (from online encyclopedia)

Objectivism (from online encyclopedia)

Ayn Rand (from online encyclopedia)

The Cato Institute (from online encyclopedia)

Worldview Watch #15: Guns, the Tea Party and the U.S. Constitution

An Introduction to Libertarianism (from Institute of Humane Studies, George Mason University)

Reason -- Free Minds and Free Markets (foundation and associated magazine website)

Radicals for Capitalism, by Brian Doherty (2007 book about history of American libertarian movement)

For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, by Murray N. Rothbard

The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek (read excerpts of classic 1949 book at Google Books)

The Objectivist Center (promoting Reason, Individualism, Achievement, and Freedom)

The Ludwig von Mises Institute (devoted to "the scholarship of liberty in the tradition of the Austrian school")

Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise

The Free Enterprise Nation  (organization seeking to "Educate, Unify, Advocate, and Take Back America")

International Society for Individual Liberty

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The Ayn Rand Institute

Free Cities: Honduras Shrugged (article in The Economist, December 10, 2011)

"Remembering the Real Ayn Rand" by Donald Luskin (April 14, 2011 Wall Street Journal opinion piece)

Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller (read excerpt from this 2009 book at NY Times)

Atlas Shrugged--50 Years Later, by Mark Skousen (2007 look at the legacy Ayn Rand's famous book)

"The (Not So) Lunatic Fringe" by Nathan Thornburgh (7/21/08 Time article about USA Libertarian party)

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The U.S. Libertarian Party

Libertarian International

Citizens Against Government Waste ("America's #1 taxpayer watchdog)

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Why I am a Libertarian and How I Became One by Tom Burroughs

"The World's Shortest Libertarian FAQ" (website focusing on the basics behind libertarianism)

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quotes related to libertarianism

quotations from Ayn Rand

More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #50B: Left Anarchist

Anarchism   (from online encyclopedia)

Anarchist Economics (from online encyclopedia)

Past and Present Anarchist Communities  (from online encyclopedia)

Egalitarianism (from online encyclopedia)

Left Libertarianism (from online encyclopedia)

Communism (from online encyclopedia)

List of Anarchist Organizations (from online encylopedia)

Mutualism  (from online encyclopedia)

Worldview Watch #15: Guns, the Tea Party and the U.S. Constitution

Conversations with History: Activism, Anarchism, and Power, with Noam Chomsky (2002 UCTV program)

flag.blackened.net (Berkeley, CA based site has provided web space for anarchist ideas since 1996)

Eat the State! ("A FORUM FOR ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN POLITICAL OPINION, RESEARCH AND HUMOR")

"InfoLiberalism, or How the Internet Can Replace the Traditional Political Order" by Sylvain Poirier

Anarchist Theory FAQ, by Bryan Caplan

Anarchist International Information Service  (links from Anarchism International website)

Anarchism in Norway: Past & Present

Anarchism.net

Workers Solidarity Movement (Irish anarchist organization)

History of Anarchist Movements (from Social Movements & Culture site at Washington State University)

International Socialist Organization (anarchist site, critical of "authoritarian socialism")

Anarchoblogs

quotations from anarchists

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