What are the different types of libertarians?

Branches and schools of libertarianism

• Agorism.
• Anarcho-capitalism.
• Autarchism.
• Bleeding-heart libertarianism.
• Christian libertarianism.
• Civil libertarianism.
• Classical liberalism.
• Consequentialist libertarianism.

Are liberal and libertarian the same thing?

According to common meanings of conservative and liberal, libertarianism in the United States has been described as conservative on economic issues (economic liberalism and fiscal conservatism) and liberal on personal freedom (civil libertarianism and cultural liberalism).

Are there libertarians in the UK?

Currently, the most explicitly libertarian party in the United Kingdom is the Libertarian Party. However, there has also been a long-standing right-libertarian faction of the mainstream Conservative Party that espouses Thatcherism.

What is the difference between left-libertarianism and libertarianism?

While all libertarians endorse similar rights over the person, left-libertarians differ from other libertarians with respect to how much people can appropriate in terms of unowned natural resources (land, air, water, minerals, etc.).

Do libertarians believe in economic freedom?

Just as people have strong rights to individual freedom in their personal and social affairs, libertarians argue, they also have strong rights to freedom in their economic affairs. Thus, rights of freedom of contract and exchange, freedom of occupation, and private property are taken very seriously.

What is the paramount value of libertarianism?

Some libertarians of this kind consider freedom the paramount value. They hold, for example, that each person has a right to maximum equal negative liberty, which is understood as the absence of forcible interference from other agents (e.g., Narveson 1988; Steiner 1994; Narveson & Sterba 2010).

Is libertarianism left wing or right wing?

For one, on social (rather than economic) issues, libertarianism tends to be “left-wing”. And second, in addition to the better-known version of libertarianism (right-libertarianism) there is also a version known as “left-libertarianism”.