Libertarian perspectives on political alliances

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Libertarian perspectives on political alliances vary greatly, with controversies among libertarians as to which alliances are acceptable or useful to the movement.

## Overview

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Many right-libertarians are political allies with neoliberals on social issues like the public role of religion (which they seek to minimize at least in government) and nontraditional lifestyles (which they generally defend).

Others, including Murray Rothbard's followers like Lew Rockwell, call themselves paleolibertarians and consider the traditionally religious and protectionist paleoconservatives to be their natural allies despite a sharp disagreement on trade issues. Paleolibertarians accuse other libertarians (whom they call "neo", "left", "lifestyle" and "beltway libertarians") of surrendering libertarian values to the political left in order to gain traction in Washington, D.C., and of undermining morality by opposing or denying religion.[1] Charley Reese of LewRockwell.com said that "a society without an underlying private morality will degenerate into a corrupt jungle. [...] I would rather live in a neighborhood of Islamic fundamentalists than in a neighborhood of atheists and agnostics. [...] [I]f we become an immoral people, we will eventually lose both our prosperity and our liberty".[2]

Friedrich Hayek's arguments in Why I Am Not a Conservative preempted the paleolibertarian movement. He argued that while libertarians (whom he called "liberals") could ally with conservatives in the short term, any fusion of the two movements would undermine their ability to defend liberty. Hayek's essay argues that alliances with conservatives are at best a necessary evil in the fight against state socialism, noting that there are deep incompatibilities because "the admiration of the conservatives for free growth generally applies only to the past. They typically lack the courage to welcome the same undesigned change from which new tools of human endeavors will emerge".[3] Still, Hayek's Road to Serfdom is used by conservatives to support their economic arguments.[4]

Another dimension of the controversy over libertarians' political alliances concerns Objectivists. Right-libertarians are often influenced by Ayn Rand's writings and have a similar agenda to that of Objectivists, but factions of the two groups are often in conflict (see Objectivism and libertarianism).

## See also

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## Notes

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1. ^ Rockwell, Lew. "What I learned From Paleoism" Archived 2020-06-10 at the Wayback Machine. LewRockwell.com. May 2, 2002.
2. ^ Reese, Charley. "Religion Essential" Archived 2022-09-28 at the Wayback Machine. LewRockwell.com. June 1, 2004.
3. ^ Hayek, Friedrich (1960). "Why I Am Not a Conservative". University of Chicago. Archived from the original on March 24, 2005. Retrieved March 24, 2005.
4. ^ Goldberg, Jonah. "Libertarians Under My Skin" Archived 2009-03-05 at the Wayback Machine. National Review Online. March 2, 2001.

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Libertarianism

Origins|

* Age of Enlightenment
* Anarchism
* Aristotelianism
* Liberalism
* classical
* radical

Schools|

| Libertarian capitalism
(Right-libertarianism)|

* Anarcho-capitalism
* Autarchism
* Fusionism
* Libertarianism
* bleeding-heart
* christian
* consequentialist
* conservative
* feminism
* geo
* green
* natural-rights
* neo
* paleo
* paternalism
* techno
* crypto
* transhumanism
* Libertarian authoritarianism
* neo-reactionary
* Minarchism
* Neo-classical liberalism
* Objectivism
* Propertarianism
* Voluntaryism

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Libertarian socialism
(Left-libertarianism)|

* Anarchism
* black
* collectivist
* communist
* feminism
* free-market
* agorism
* green
* individualist
* egoist
* insurrectionary
* libertarian communism
* mutualism
* pacifist
* philosophical
* queer
* social
* syndicalist
* Autonomism
* Communalism
* Guild socialism
* Libertarian Marxism
* communization
* mao-spontex
* Syndicalism

Concepts|

* Anti-capitalism
* Anti-statism
* Civil libertarianism
* Crypto-anarchism
* Counter-economics
* Decentralization
* Departurism
* Evictionism
* Expropriative anarchism
* Federalism (anarchist)
* Free association (Marxism and anarchism)
* Free market
* Free-market environmentalism
* Freedom of association
* Freedom of choice
* Freedom of contract
* Gift economy
* Homestead principle
* Illegalism
* Individualism
* Individualist feminism
* Individual reclamation
* Liberty
* Libertarianism (metaphysics)
* Localism
* Natural law
* Natural rights and legal rights
* Night-watchman state
* Non-aggression principle
* Participatory economics
* Property is theft!
* Refusal of work
* Self-ownership
* Single tax
* Spontaneous order
* Stateless society
* Voluntary association
* Voluntary society
* Workers' councils
* Workers' self-management

Philosophers|

| Left-wing|

* Bakunin
* Bookchin
* Camus
* Chomsky
* Cleyre
* Déjacque
* Fourier
* Godwin
* Goldman
* Guérin
* Hodgskin
* Kropotkin
* Marcuse
* Öcalan
* Proudhon
* Warren
* Tucker

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Right-wing|

* Bastiat
* Block
* Brennan
* Emerson
* D. Friedman
* M. Friedman
* R. Friedman
* Goldwater
* Hayek
* Herbert
* Hoppe
* Jillette
* Kinsella
* Korwin-Mikke
* Lane
* Locke
* von Mises
* de Molinari
* Nock
* Nozick
* Paterson
* Rand
* Read
* Rothbard
* Simon
* Spencer
* Stossel

Other|

* George
* Hess
* Konkin
* de La Boétie
* McElroy
* Paine
* Spooner
* Stirner
* Szasz
* Thoreau

Politicians|

* Cleveland
* Coolidge
* Farage
* Gandhi
* Johnson
* Jorgensen
* Korwin-Mikke
* Milei
* Paul
* Sarwark

Issues|

* Abortion
* Affirmative action
* Anarcho-capitalism and minarchism
* Capital punishment
* Foreign intervention
* Immigration
* Intellectual property
* Internal debates
* LGBT rights
* Objectivism
* Political alliances
* Political parties
* Theories of law
* War on Drugs

Works|

* Atlas Shrugged (1957)
* The Market for Liberty (1970)
* For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (1973)
* Law, Legislation and Liberty (1973–1979)
* Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
* Free to Choose (1980)

Related|

* Abolitionism
* Anti-collectivism
* Anti-communism
* Anti-fascism
* Anti-socialism
* Austro-libertarianism
* Center for Libertarian Studies
* Civil libertarianism
* Classical liberalism
* Conscientious objector
* Constitutionalism
* Cultural liberalism
* Economic liberalism
* Freeman on the land movement
* Fusionism
* Geolibertarianism
* Georgism
* Green libertarianism
* Libertarian conservatism
* Libertarian Democrats
* Libertarian socialism
* Libertarian Republicans
* Libertarian science fiction
* Libertarianism in the United Kingdom
* Libertarianism in the United States
* Objectivism
* Public choice theory
* Small government
* Sovereign citizen movement
* Technolibertarianism

* Libertarianism portal
* Outline of libertarianism

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