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Classical Liberalism
Original branch of liberalism that defends natural rights, property, free markets, and a minimal state, seeing individual freedom and the strict limitation of power as the foundations of a just societ…
Libertarianism
Philosophy that advocates maximum individual freedom and a state reduced to essential functions, valuing private property, free markets, and personal autonomy while rejecting state coercion over life.
Geolibertarianism
Synthesis of libertarianism and Georgism that combines free markets and individual freedoms with the taxation of land value, seen as a common resource, to fund the minimal state without punishing labo…
Minarcho-Mutualism
Synthesis that unites mutualism with a minimal state, combining fair exchange, cooperatives, and free credit with a public structure reduced to the essential functions of protecting rights, contracts,…
Anarcho-Capitalism
Current that proposes abolishing the state and organizing all of society through contracts and free markets, with security, justice, and services provided by competing private companies under absolute…
Minarchism
Libertarian branch that defends a minimal state limited to police, courts, and defense, leaving everything else to the market and private initiative, to protect individual rights without oppressing fr…
Paleolibertarianism
Branch that combines radical free markets with traditional, conservative cultural values, defending economic freedom, property, and autonomous local communities against the state and progressivism.
Hoppean Libertarianism
Current linked to Hans-Hermann Hoppe that unites anarcho-capitalism, absolute private property, and criticism of democracy, defending social orders based on contract, voluntary exclusion, and private …
Objectivism
Philosophy created by Ayn Rand that exalts reason, individualism, and rational egoism, defending laissez-faire capitalism and the pursuit of one's own happiness as the supreme moral purpose of each pe…
Crypto-Anarchism
Current that uses cryptography and digital technologies to guarantee privacy, freedom, and transactions beyond state control, seeking to weaken surveillance and authority through technological means.
Bleeding-Heart Libertarianism
Current that unites free markets and individual freedoms with concern for social justice, holding that economic freedom must also concretely improve the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable.
National Libertarianism
Branch that combines the defense of individual freedoms and free markets with appreciation for national sovereignty and identity, defending limited government alongside border control and the nation.
Libertarian Monarchism
Current that sees monarchy as a guarantee of freedom and stability, defending a king with limited power who protects property and individual rights and maintains a lean, minimally interventionist stat…
Libertarian Conservatism
Synthesis that unites free markets and a minimal state with the defense of tradition, family, and order, valuing individual freedom and personal responsibility alongside the preservation of customs an…
Progressive Libertarianism
Branch that pursues gender equality through individual freedom and the market rather than the state, defending autonomy, equal rights, and the end of legal restrictions on women's choices.
Anarcho-Conservatism
Current that rejects the state but preserves tradition, religion, and community values, defending a spontaneous social order based on customs, family, and natural authority instead of central politica…
Libertarian Populism
Branch that unites anti-politics, radical free markets, and direct popular communication, attacking bureaucracies, taxes, and party elites in the name of individual freedom, entrepreneurship, and the …
Libertarian Authoritarianism
A doctrine separating political authority from social control: it favours concentrated, unelected executive power insulated from popular vote, which in exchange guarantees civil liberty, privacy and m…
Libertarian Militarism
A doctrine combining a minimal state in taxation, regulation and morals with strong armed forces and an armed citizenry: national defense is the one expanded state function, treated as the condition o…
Techno-Commercialism
A neoreactionary current that rejects democracy in favor of microstates run like firms. It favors competition among jurisdictions, free markets, the right of exit, and technological innovation as prin…
Municipalism
A world divided into independent city-states and microstates that compete like a market, with free secession, the right of exit and political experimentation, from the medieval free cities to Yarvin's…
Effective Accelerationism
A movement born online in 2022 that argues for accelerating AI, energy and innovation through the market and without regulation, treating technological progress as a moral imperative and rejecting adv…
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