Libertarismo

I am a libertarian with a small l and a Republican with a capital R. And I am a Republican with a capital R on grounds of expediency, not on principle… I think the term classical liberal is also equally applicable. I don't really care very much what I'm called. I'm much more interested in having people thinking about the ideas, rather than the person.

Friedman, Milton

Uma das facetas do liberalismo contemporâneo de matriz norte-americana. Os libertarians, também ditos anarco-capitalistas, assumem o extremismo da liberdade e da propriedade, contraditando os liberais conservadores. Invocam John Locke e Ludwig von Mises, num radical individualismo que, no plano da política externa, também assume o isolacionismo. Entre os seus principais representantes, contam-se Robert Nozick, David Friedman (The Machinery of Freedom), Barry Norman (On Classic Liberalism and Libertarianism, 1980) e Murray Rothabard (For a New Liberty. The Libertarian Manifest, de 1973).

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