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Libertarianism

Libertarianism. What Is It?. Music and Test. http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqXAW2snGMI http:// www.theadvocates.org/quiz. Libertarianism’s Component Parts. Liberty as a fundamental moral value Self-ownership

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Libertarianism

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  1. Libertarianism What Is It?

  2. Music and Test • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqXAW2snGMI • http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz

  3. Libertarianism’s Component Parts • Liberty as a fundamental moral value • Self-ownership • Any position that argues for the radical redistribution of power from the coercive state to voluntary associations of free persons. • Non-initiation of violence principle

  4. Anarchism versus Minarchism • Anarchists advocate the abolition of the state • Minarchists advocate a minimal state to protect people from aggression, theft, breach of contract, and fraud.

  5. Libertarian, the word • William Belsham first used the word in 1789 in opposition to necessitarian (determinism). • Albert Jay Nock and H.L. Mencken called themselves libertarians as advocates of individualism and limited government in response to Franklin Roosevelt’s cooption of the world liberal.

  6. Brief Historical Sketch • 17th century - John Locke’s challenge to an absolutist state is the birth of the libertarian creed. • 18th century – Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson articulate this philosophy of liberty into an American context. William Godwin took classical liberalism to its logical anarchic conclusion. • 19th century – Benjamin Tucker, Josiah Warren, Henry David Thoreau, Max Stirner, and Lysander Spooner.

  7. Brief Historical Sketch - Continued • Twentieth Century – Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Robert Nozick, and Murray Rothbard… Fusion of libertarian ideas with the Republican party and birth of libertarian political party… Left Libertarianism Murray Bookchin, Noam Chomsky… • Twenty First Century – Alejandro Chaufin, Steve Horowitz, Matt Zwolinski, Sarah Skwire, Tom Palmer, Free Market think tanks

  8. Policy Implications • School Choice and privately provided education • Drug legalization and private support for individuals encountering problems with addiction • Personal responsibility for health care • Non-interventionist foreign policy • Private help for the poor and the homeless • Low taxes and market forces left to determine what people will consume • Emphasis on personal responsibility, reward, innovation and creativity

  9. Folk Song Army • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yygMhtNQJ9M

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