Minarchism
Libertarian branch that defends a minimal state limited to police, courts, and defense, leaving everything else to the market and private initiative, to protect individual rights without oppressing freedom.
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Libertarian branch that defends a minimal state limited to police, courts, and defense, leaving everything else to the market and private initiative, to protect individual rights without oppressing freedom.
EDITORIAL SUMMARY
I want a minimal state, restricted to police, courts and defense, leaving everything else to the free market and private initiative.
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This position is 58.7 points from the median of the 257 ideology profiles in this collection.
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This position is 0.5 points from this collection’s median.
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An American philosopher, Nozick defended libertarianism and the minimal state in Anarchy, State, and Utopia, arguing that only the protection of individual rights justifies the existence of state power.
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Most compatible among the 257 schools
Family of political theories emphasizing individual freedom and limits on coercive authority. This catalog profile represents a right-libertarian interpretation centered on private property, markets, and a minimal state; other libertarian traditions differ.
Original branch of liberalism that defends natural rights, property, free markets, and a minimal state, seeing individual freedom and the strict limitation of power as the foundations of a just society.
Branch that unites anti-politics, radical free markets, and direct popular communication, attacking bureaucracies, taxes, and party elites in the name of individual freedom, entrepreneurship, and the sovereignty of the ordinary citizen.
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