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Libertarianism (disambiguation)

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Libertarianism is a political philosophy and movement that upholds liberty as the highest political end. This ideology may include:

  • Civil libertarianism, a strain of political thought that emphasizes the supremacy of individual rights and personal freedoms over and against any kind of authority
  • Left-libertarianism, a position contrasted with that of right-libertarianism which rejects the private ownership of natural resources
    • Anarchism, an anti-authoritarian and anti-statist philosophy for which some use the term libertarianism synonymously
    • Libertarian socialism, a group of philosophies which aspire to create a non-hierarchical society without private ownership of the means of production or an authoritarian state
  • Right-libertarianism, a position contrasted with that of left-libertarianism for its explicit support of free-market capitalism and private property rights

Libertarianism may also refer to:

  • Metaphysical libertarianism, philosophical position supporting free will against determinism
  • Libertinism, sometimes called moral libertarianism and contrasted to political or social libertarianism and metaphysical libertarianism

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