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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.)

Related Words, Beliefs, Background -- 35 entries

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

Libertarianism (from online encyclopedia)
Libertarianism and Objectivism (from online encyclopedia)
Objectivism (from online encyclopedia)
Ayn Rand (from online encyclopedia)
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 Cato Institute (from online encyclopedia)
The Objectivist Center (promoting Reason, Individualism, Achievement, and Freedom)
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
International Society for Individual Liberty
The Ayn Rand Institute
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)
What is Endangered: Climate or Freedom? by Vaclav Klaus
Critiques of Libertarianism (exhaustive links to this literature, includes liberal & conservative opponents!)
Criticisms of Objectivism (perhaps biased since source is Objectivism Reference Library?)
The U.S. Libertarian Party
Libertarian International
Citizens Against Government Waste ("America's #1 taxpayer watchdog)
Libertarian Causes Worth Supporting, Libertarian News
Why I am a Libertarian and How I Became One by Tom Burroughes
"The World's Shortest Libertarian FAQ" (website focusing on the basics behind libertarianism)
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)
List of Anarchist Organizations (from online encylopedia)
Mutualism  (from online encyclopedia)
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")
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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