Right-libertarianism
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Right-libertarianism , more commonly called Libertarian conservatism, describes certain political ideologies with views between libertarianism and right-wing conservatism, such as limited government and capitalism. Its four main branches are traditional libertarianism, neolibertarianism, paleolibertarianism, and small government conservatism.
The main goal of classical libertarianism is shrinking the power of the federal government and to promote free markets. They support economically conservative goals such as cutting taxes and government spending, a balanced budget, reforming, privitizing or ending programs such as welfare and Social Security, lowering or ending tariffs and other government barriers to free trade with foreign nations, deregulation of business, support of states' rights, and the protection of property rights to promote the above. However, libertarians support socially liberal goals such as free speech, opposition to corporate welfare, secularism, abortion rights, gay rights, undocumented immigration, the rights of the accused, opposition to the USA Patriot Act, opposition to the death penalty, opposition to the war on drugs, less militarism, opposition to international alliances and the draft, overwhelming opposition to Operation Iraqi Freedom, and support for decreased military spending. Libertarians believe that social liberalism and anti-militarism promote economically conservative goals, because they promote deregulation and give more economic choices to the people, and lower government spending because they wouldn't need as much government bureaucracy to enforce these laws.
Like classical libertarianism, neolibertarianism embraces small government, free markets, deregulation, the expansion of civil liberties, and the separation of church and state. However, neolibertarians support an interventionist foreign policy. They believe in militarism to expand democracy, international alliances with foreign nations, a strong defense, and increased military spending. They believe in defeating authoritarian nations. They may also support the arrests of antiwar activists and be tough on crime by harshly punishing criminals with methods such as the death penalty.
Like classical libertarianism, paleolibertarianism embraces smaller or no government, fiscal conservatism, states' rights, gun rights, civil liberties and non-interventionism for foreign policy. However, paleolibertarians may reject the separation of church and state more so at the non-federal level, as they generally believe that the Federal Constitution only applies to the Federal government. Most paleolibertarians tend to be pro-life and culturally conservative. Some may support school prayer and teaching creationism in school, though their general goal is to privitaze all education. However, paleolibertarians do agree with left-libertarians on certain issues such as Intellectual property rights.
Small government conservatives almost always support states' rights, usually support free trade, and sometimes support the expansion of civil liberties. Some small government conservatives support social conservatism, but believe they are the responsibility of the state governments, not the federal governments.
Barry Goldwater is a notable right-libertarian.
[edit] See also
- Anti-Communism
- Big business
- Commerce
- Common sense conservative
- Economic growth
- Economic liberalism
- Economic libertarianism
- Economy
- Freedom
- Individual rights
- Liberal conservatism
- Liberal democracy
- Liberal theory of economics
- Liberalism
- Manchester capitalism
- Market Economy
- Monetarism
- Natural law
- Negative liberty
- Neoliberalism
- Objectivism
- Open Economy
- Paleoliberalism
- Private sector
- Privatization
- Propertarian
- Supply-side economics
- The Global Economy
- Trade
- Voluntary sector
- Welfare Reform
