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	Will Wilkinson / The Fly Bottle: Libertarian Ideal Theory
		Libertarians tend to be infatuated with what Rawls called "ideal theory," with conjuring pictures of the best society in abstraction from the "noise" of historical and sociological contingency.
		Much libertarian ideal theory proceeds on something like the assumption of a entire society of convinced libertarians (or at least the weaker assumption that it is possible to come to the kind of consensus necessary to install a libertarian constitution or basic structure).
		So what we need is a theory of just how libertarian a particular society could possibly get, given human psychology, the set of social and economic relations, the available mechanisms of persuasion, and the set of belief systems or "macro mythologies", at a given time, plus the dynamics that govern changes in these things.
	willwilkinson.net /flybottle/archives/2004/02/libertarian_ide.html (885 words)

	Libertarian Socialism
		Libertarian Socialism recognizes that the concept of "property" (specifically, the means of production, factories, land used for profit, rented space) is theft and that in a truly libertarian society, the individual would be free of exploitation caused by the concentration of all means of wealth-making into the hands of an elite minority of capitalists.
		Libertarian socialists understand that it is the workers who create and maintain everything in the world, and they do not need leaders to direct them in the affairs of their lives.
		Libertarian socialists are against all forms of coercion, state and capitalist, and do not seek to regulate human behaviors by way of the state, including such issues as possession of firearms, drugs, sexual conduct between consenting individuals, and related issues.
	flag.blackened.net /liberty/libsoc.html (2743 words)

	Institute for Social Ecology - The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism
		Libertarian municipalism, the political dimension of social ecology that was developed by Murray Bookchin, is the most recent manifestation of this grand tradition.
		As social anarchists and libertarian communists, we need to ground ourselves not only in our own familiar literature but in social ecology, in left-libertarian history and theory, in the history of democratic traditions and communalist practices, both in our own areas and in other parts of the world, and in democratic and political theory.
		Libertarian municipalism stands in the tradition of "civic humanism," which places the highest value on the active, responsible participation of citizens in the management of their common affairs.
	www.social-ecology.org /article.php?story=20031028143324193 (8796 words)

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		Libertarians generally agree that the driver of a getaway car is liable for a bank robbery, even if he did not personally wield a gun or threaten force.
		The libertarian who seriously believes that voting is always nonaggressive - "How," he asks, "can pulling a lever in a voting booth constitute aggression?" - is led by his own logic to conclude that voting for any candidate is permissible by libertarian standards, regardless of what the aspiring politician promises to do while in office.
		Libertarians who are squeamish about this should recall the praise Friedrich Nietzsche lavished on the age that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.
	users.aol.com /xeqtr1/voluntaryist/vis01.txt (7355 words)

	THE FREE PRESS THEORY
		Libertarianism sets out the idea media should operate independently from the government and challenged the authoritarian rule during the time of the first printing press and is now widely regarded as the main legitimating principle for print media in liberal democracies.
		The "libertarian theory" was the most popular theory of the late 18th and 19th centuries: John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, John Milton, and John Stuart Mill advocated the theory.
		The theory has been seen as an argument for religious freedom; as a defense against misrule; as an end in itself; as a means of arriving at truth; as a component of commercial freedom; as a practical inevitiability.
	www.colostate.edu /Depts/Speech/rccs/theory05.htm (737 words)

	Whole Number 1 - October 1982 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The libertarian who seriously believes that voting is always nonaggressive — "How," he asks, "can pulling a lever in a voting booth constitute aggression?" — is led by his own logic to conclude that voting for any candidate is permissible by libertarian standards, regardless of what the aspiring politician promises to do while in office.
		Libertarian anarchism combines the libertarian principle of nonaggression with a particular analysis of the State — an analysis not shared by libertarian minarchists.
		In constructing anti-political theory and strategy — which was assumed by early libertarians without being well defined — we will be labeled as merely counter Libertarian Party by those who innocently or with malice are unable to perceive the wider context which leads to a rejection of the political means itself.
	users.aol.com /vlntryst/wn01.html (4691 words)

	Libertarian Just War Theory
		Regarding the civilians within the enemy state, under libertarian theory, it is clearly an act of aggression to bomb or to use any other weapon that does not discriminate between the innocent and the guilty.
		Libertarianism is not a philosophy of proper social consequences: it is philosophy organized around the means of non-aggression.
		To conclude: a libertarian just war would have to be declared in response to an act of aggression that could not be remedied in by a lesser level of defensive violence.
	www.zetetics.com /mac/articles/justwar.html (2030 words)

	Libertarian theories of law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Libertarian theories of law build upon classical liberal and anarchist doctrines.
		Ideas range from anarchism (as anarcho-capitalists may still designate themselves libertarians) to the mere enforcement of contracts.
		Among contemporary legal theorists is Randy Barnett, who set out a comprehensive libertarian theory of law in his book The Structure of Liberty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Libertarian_theories_of_law (198 words)

	Siebert's Four Theories of the Press: A Critique
		In contrast to the authoritarian theory, the libertarian view rests on the idea that the individual should be free to publish whatever he or she likes.
		In other words, a theory will always be a compromise between general and specific criteria; that is, "to what extent the theory is applicable to all conditions at all times" (297).
		When introducing the basis for the four theories, he does not make any attempt to hide the fact that all of them have their roots from specific periods of time and are closely tied to the political conditions of those ages (6).
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/2152/siebert.htm (3597 words)

	Anarchist Theory FAQ Version 5.2
		So-called "minarchist" libertarians such as Nozick have argued that the largest justified government was one which was limited to the protection of individuals and their private property against physical invasion; accordingly, they favor a government limited to supplying police, courts, a legal code, and national defense.
		This normative theory is closely linked to laissez-faire economic theory, according to which private property and unregulated competition generally lead to both an efficient allocation of resources and (more importantly) a high rate of economic progress.
		However, in theory an "anarcho-capitalist" society might be filled with nothing but communes or worker- owned firms, so long as these associations were formed voluntarily (i.e., individuals joined voluntarily and capital was obtained with the consent of the owners) and individuals retained the right to exit and set up corporations or other profit-making, individualistic firms.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/anarchy/theory/faq (15174 words)

	A Libertarian Theory of Punishment and Rights
		In conventional theories of punishment, concepts of restitution, deterrence, [FN3] retribution, and rehabilitation are often forwarded as justifications for punishment, even though they are really the effects or purposes of punishment.
		A similar concept, "dialogical estoppel," can be used to justify the libertarian conception of rights because of the reciprocity inherent in the libertarian tenet that force is legitimate only in response to force and because of the consistency that must apply to aggressors trying to argue why they should not be punished.
		Theories of punishment are concerned with justifying punishment, with offering decent people who are reluctant to act immorally a reason why they may punish others.
	www.stephankinsella.com /publications/loyla.php (8887 words)

	Libertarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Libertarianism is a political philosophy advocating that individuals should be free to do whatever they wish with their person or property, as long as they do not infringe on the same liberty of others.
		Libertarians strongly oppose infringement of civil liberties such as restrictions on free expression (e.g., speech, press, or religious practice), prohibitions on voluntary association, or encroachments on persons or property except as a result of due process to establish or punish criminal behavior.
		Libertarianism is often viewed as a right-wing movement, especially by non-libertarians in the United States, where libertarians tend to have more in common with traditional conservatives than American liberals, especially with regard to economic and gun control policies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Libertarian_theory (6608 words)

	Libertarian Feminism: Can This Marriage Be Saved?: Roderick Long and Charles Johnson (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Libertarians are often unimpressed by feminist worries about social norms that disable anything a woman says from counting as declining consent to sexual access, but they are indignant at theories of tacit or hypothetical consent that disable anything a citizen says from counting as declining consent to governmental authority.
		Libertarianism professes to be a comprehensive theory of human freedom; what is supposed to be distinctive about the libertarian theory of justice is that we concern ourselves with violent coercion no matter who is practicing it—even if he has a government uniform on.
		Libertarian temptations to the contrary notwithstanding, it makes no sense to regard the state as the root of all social evil, for there is at least one social evil that cannot be blamed on the state — and that is the state itself.
	charleswjohnson.name /essays/libertarian-feminism (11501 words)

	A Libertarian Theory of Secession and Slavery
		Professor Tibor Machan, in his "Lincoln, Secession and Slavery" (6/1/02) has taken the position that while secession in and of itself is unobjectionable to the libertarian, it cannot properly be applied to political jurisdictions which practice slavery.
		When anyone else, be he a king, a thug or a majority, demands anything of us (other than that we respect the libertarian axioms of property and non aggression), they are imposing upon us; they are invading us, and violating our rights.
		President was a "good American," indeed, almost a libertarian, forsooth, in that the South should not be allowed to depart while still they held hostages, and that Lincoln stopped them.
	www.lewrockwell.com /block/block15.html (1458 words)

	Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of World War by Anthony Gregory
		Libertarian Splits in the War on Terrorism" why we can't expect to ever have a free society as long as we have a perpetual War on Terrorism.
		When some libertarians went beyond supporting the Afghanistan War to advocating war on Iraq, it became clear that liberventionism was not going away and was not only an understandable, if disappointing, visceral reaction in the immediate wake of 9/11.
		Libertarianism in the Age of Empire," activist and writer Thomas Knapp chimed in, with "
	www.lewrockwell.com /gregory/gregory57.html (2271 words)

	South Puget Sound Libertarian - Libertarian Theory
		In this case, according to libertarian theory, the world is divided up into 2 classes —; things that are owned and things that are not owned.
		So, perhaps libertarian theory cannot answer the question of whether a baby falls into the "owned" class or into the "unowned" class.
		Another problem for libertarians, perhaps the biggest one, is what to do about defense, both personal and national.
	www.laceylibertarian.us /index.php?cat=2 (1568 words)

	Books on Libertarianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		If you're just curious about libertarianism, this collection of in-depth scholarly articles may be more dense and detailed than what you're looking for, but it is an excellent resource for college students, professors, and advanced readers.
		Rothbard was one of the greatest libertarian thinkers and writers of the 20th century -- indeed, of all time.
		In this provocative, bold and inspiring book, first published in 1973, Rothbard lays out his radical libertarian vision of a society in which all worthwhile and legitimate functions now provided by the state are handled by the private sector.
	www.libertarianism.com /books.htm (730 words)

	The Libertarian Communist Home Page
		It is quite different from the Marxist-Leninist "communist" movement which did not initiate communism in the USSR and China but actualy a form of state capitalism, where the government, not the working people, controlled all property and production.
		Anarchists are opposed to capitalism and the state, and they believe the working class must organize to overthrow capitalism and replace it with an egalitarian, libertarian system where each person's autonomy and individuality is fully realized and allowed to flourish, and human community and solidarity is fully realized.
		New movements like the Libertarian Party and so-called anarcho-capitalism represent rightwingers who wish to steal the basic words and ideas of anarchists and make them stand for capitalism and a government of bosses and corporations.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Embassy/8970 (490 words)

	Murray N. Rothbard: Mr. Libertarian
		As a result of the fusion, libertarianism blossomed in the '60s as the philosophy of absolute individual rights based on natural law of rights that were expressed domestically through the free market and internationally through non-aggression (isolationism) with its corollary of unbridled free trade.
		Liberty, he declared, is not necessarily the highest value of libertarians: it is merely the highest political value....politics being the form of ethical philosophy that deals with the role of violence in human society.
		He writes, "This means that the libertarian must be an abolitionist, i.e., he must wish to achieve the goal of liberty as rapidly as possible." Abolitionism, then, was a key to the policy of libertarianism.
	www.zetetics.com /mac/rockwell/mcelroy000706.html (4060 words)

	SSRN-A Libertarian Theory of Immigration by Walter Block
		Libertarianism is the view that all behavior should be allowed, with the one exception that threatened or actual violence against a person or his legitimately owned property should be proscribed.
		If these arguments were correct, moreover, they would mitigate against giving birth to babies, for, in a dozen or two dozen years, newborns can be "guilty" of all charges now made against immigrants.
		This being the case, the libertarian view on immigration, as it is on free trade and the international movement of goods, is one of laissez faire.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=230876 (241 words)

	Neolibertarian -
		Instead of arguing for a marriage of leftists and libertarians, where each has a valuable and equal role to play, the KLDs should be more blatant about the relationship: the libertarians would be the whory girlfriend to the millionaire playboy democrats.
		The whory libertarian gets paraded around at times for the benefit of the democrat playboy, gets some nice toys and jewelry that couldn't be gotten without the playboy's money, and then gets screwed over when it comes time to make the big money deals.
		By the way, I love the theory; the theory is WHY I'm a libertarian, but I wouldn't start running for office explaining libertarianism with contract theory, radical individualism or the nature of humanity.
	blog.neo-libertarian.com (11310 words)

	Libertarian Theory
		In libertarian theory, the individual is seen to be rational and knows how to differentiate between right and wrong and is able to choose for better instead of worst alternatives.
		When humans are given free access to a full range of information about sex, they are able to make rational choices about what is the appropriate sexual conduct for themselves (within the boundaries of their culture).
		Government censorship on pornography can only be justified if it can be shown that consumption of sex depictions is causally related to rape or other violent crimes.
	members.tripod.com /maychong/libertarian.htm (111 words)

	Green-Libertarian Politics and Theory
		There are no justifications of property rights to natural resources that do not, upon close inspection, turn out merely to be justifications of a right of access.
		The preceding renders an environmentalist form of socialism in terms of procedural principles (as opposed to distributive or utilitarian principles), so that it can be "mixed and matched" with other libertarian positions; libertarianism, whatever the school, is based on a strictly procedural conception of justice.
		The goal of eco-libertarian theorizing is merely to determine which political system is the correct one; in this respect it does not differ from most political theorizing.
	www.efn.org /~bsharvy/ecolibparty.html (424 words)

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