Difference between revisions of "The many divisions within libertarianism."

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         2- Those that are libertarian because they believe that libertarian means will produce the end result that they desire.
 
         2- Those that are libertarian because they believe that libertarian means will produce the end result that they desire.
 
         http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/2/27/15718/5328
 
         http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/2/27/15718/5328
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Although there are many political factions with diverse agendas, there are a small number that elevate freedom and liberty as their primary organizing principle: individualist libertarian (Appalachia), corporate libertarian (Far West), and civil libertarian (Yankeedom, New Netherland, and Left Coast). All share a fear of concentrated coercive power that threatens freedom or liberty. Corporate libertarians favor moneyed and corporate liberties and oppose government regulation and taxation. The agenda includes the private sector takeover of many government functions. The best known libertarian think tanks, like CATO, are well funded by corporate interests. Individualist libertarians favor individual freedom and oppose most forms of coercive power whether governmental, corporate, or aristocratic. They are less inclined to organize for collective action than their corporate colleagues. Civil libertarians favor individual freedom and oppose all forms of unchecked coercive power, and they rely heavily on government solutions, specifically the Constitution's Bill of Rights and the federal courts. The ACLU is one well known instrument of civil libertarians.
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D. Robert Worley
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[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/d-robert-worley/election-history-liberty-_b_1730864.html Freedom or Liberty? A Democracy or a Republic?]
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Worley's observation of the differences between the corporate libertarianism of the Deep South and Far West and the individualistic libertarianism of Greater Appalachia are fair enough, but from my perspective the most refreshing and provocative idea is that there is a "civil libertarianism" anchored in Yankeedom and the Left Coast that whose adherents "favor individual freedom and oppose all forms of unchecked coercive power, and...rely heavily on government solutions, specifically the Constitution's Bill of Rights and the federal courts."
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Colin Woodard
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[http://colinwoodard.blogspot.com/2012/08/are-there-three-strains-of-american.html Are there three strains of American libertarianism?]

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