laissez faire

/ˌlɛ(ˌ)seɪ ˈfɛəɹ/

Borrowed from French laissez faire (“leave it be”, literally “let do”).

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In brief, all this Mammon-Gospel of Supply-and-demand, Competition, Laissez-faire, and Devil take the hindmost, begins to be one of the shabbiest Gospels ever preached on Earth; or altogether the shabbiest.

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 9, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book I (Proem), page 106:

(economics, politics) A policy of governmental non-interference in economic affairs.

放任

economics: a policy of governmental non-interference in economic affairs


laissez faire

en-adj

laissez faire (comparative more laissez faire, superlative most laissez faire)

more laissez faire (comparative)
most laissez faire (superlative)

/ˌlɛ(ˌ)seɪ ˈfɛəɹ/

I think the city should take a laissez faire approach to this; getting involved would only make things worse.

(economics, politics) Practicing or representing governmental noninterference, or minimal interference, especially in economic affairs; pertaining to free-market capitalism.

laissez-faire

economics, politics: practicing or representing governmental noninterference, or minimal interference

The Senator claims to be laissez faire, but he voted in favor of the subsidies.

(economics, politics) Advocating such noninterference.

The price ceiling was well below the laissez faire price that demand would have supported, so there were always shortages.

(economics) Resulting from such noninterference.

(of a person) Avoiding interference in other people's affairs; choosing to live and let live.

afskiptalaus

of a person: avoiding interference in other people's affairs


libertarian

/ˌlɪb.əˈtɛə.ɹɪ.ən/

Foundation for Economic Education
Joseph Déjacque
Leonard Read
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
William Belsham
lois scélérates

The noun is derived from liber(ty) + -arian (suffix denoting an advocate of or believer in something). The adjective is derived from the noun.
sense development
The word was first attested in English in 1789 in William Belsham’s Essays: see the quotation. This was contrasted with necessitarian, in the context of free will, and was not used in the more frequently encountered modern sense.
Compare French libertaire (“person with extreme left-wing beliefs, anarchist”), from liberté (“freedom”) + -aire (suffix forming nouns). Libertaire is derived from Latin libertas. The French word was first attested in a May 1857 letter by the French anarcho-communist Joseph Déjacque (1821–1865) to the anarchist philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865), reading: “Anarchiste juste-milieu, libéral et non LIBERTAIRE [A centrist anarchist, liberal and not LIBERTARIAN] […]”. It was popularized as a euphemism for anarchiste in the 1890s, following the French lois scélérates (literally “villainous laws”) under which anarchist publications were banned.
Sense 3.2 (“believer in right-libertarianism”) developed in the United States in the 1940s and was popularized in the 1950s. In the 1940s, Leonard Read (1898–1983), the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education, a free-market think tank, began calling himself “libertarian” in contrast with a “classical liberal”. In 1955, Dean Russell also promoted the use of the word, writing: “Let those of us who love liberty trade-mark and reserve for our own use the good and honorable word ‘libertarian’.”

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[Gustav] Landauer's reorientation of anarchist theory and practice in the direction of idealist and völkisch thought was often incomprehensible to the more traditional libertarians, and in the period of the second Sozialist Landauer no longer felt entirely comfortable with the simple "anarchist" label. For Landauer anarchism and socialism had always been different expressions of the same view; now he regarded anarchism as "merely the negative side of what is positively called socialism."

1973, Eugene Lunn, “The Romantic as Socialist”, in Prophet of Community: The Romantic Socialism of Gustav Landauer, Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif.; London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 200:

While anarchism and socialist libertarians have a rich history of revolutionary thinkers ranging from Emma Goldman to George Orwell, the best-known socialist libertarian thinker of today is probably Noam Chomsky.

2012, Jennifer D. Carlson, “Libertarianism”, in edited by Wilbur R. Miller, The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encyclopedia, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, →ISBN, page 1008, column 1:

(politics) One who advocates libertarianism (“a political philosophy maintaining that all persons are the absolute owners of their own lives, and should be free to do whatever they wish with their persons or property, provided they allow others that same liberty”); also, a member of a political party supporting libertarianism.

(chiefly Ireland, UK) An antiauthoritarian believer in left-libertarianism, a political doctrine that stresses both individual freedom and social equality, and advocates shared ownership of natural resources.

(chiefly US) A believer in right-libertarianism, a political doctrine that emphasizes individual liberty and a lack of governmental intervention, oversight, and regulation, both in economic matters (that is, a belief in the free market) and in personal behaviour provided that no one's rights are threatened or violated.


libertarian

en-adj

libertarian (comparative more libertarian, superlative most libertarian)

more libertarian (comparative)
most libertarian (superlative)

/ˌlɪb.əˈtɛə.ɹɪ.ən/

a libertarian capitalist

For a long time, libertarian was interchangeable in France with anarchist but in recent years, its meaning has become more ambivalent. Some anarchists like David Guérin will call themselves ‘libertarian socialists’, partly to avoid the negative overtones still associated with anarchism, and partly to stress the place of anarchism with the socialist tradition. Even Marxists of the New Left like E[dward] P[almer] Thompson call themselves ‘libertarian’ to distinguish themselves from those authoritarian socialists and communists who believe in revolutionary dictatorship and vanguard parties.

1991, Peter H[ugh] Marshall, “The Relevance of Anarchism”, in Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism, London: Harper Perennial, published 2008, →ISBN, part 7 (The Legacy of Anarchism), page 641:

Rand Paul's presidential campaign has drafted in his father, libertarian icon Ron Paul, to directly attack Republican rival Ted Cruz in a robocall in Iowa, the first time the former presidential candidate has gone on the offensive on his son’s behalf.

2016 January 13, Ben Jacobs, “Ron Paul criticizes Cruz's absence from Fed vote in support of son's campaign”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-27:

Anonymous activities have over the years leaned incoherently to the libertarian left and right, and everything in between, singling out everyone from Justin Bieber fans to feminists, fascists, cybersecurity specialists, and engaged in the kind of pervert-exposing vigilantism that blue-collar tabloid readers have long been mocked for.

2017, Angela Nagle, “The Leaderless Digital Counter-revolution”, in Kill All Normies: The Online Culture Wars from Tumblr and 4chan to the Alt-right and Trump, Alresford, Hampshire: Zero Books, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN, page 13:

(originally US, politics) Relating to, or advocating, libertarianism; also, relating to a political party supporting libertarianism.

自由的

relating to, or advocating, libertarianism; relating to a political party supporting libertarianism


decentralization

en-noun

decentralization (countable and uncountable, plural decentralizations)

From de- + centralization or decentralize + -ation.


libertarian socialism

Any of a group of political philosophies dedicated to opposing coercive forms of authority and social hierarchy, prominent examples being capitalism and the State; especially one that encourages the direct seizure by the people of the means of production with the aim of moving toward the creation of a radical direct democracy.

リバタリアン社会主義

リバタリアンしゃかいしゅぎ


lib

lib (countable and uncountable, plural libs)

Abbreviation for various words beginning in lib-.


night watchman state

night watchman state (plural night watchman states)

Calque of German Nachtwächterstaat, which was coined by German socialist Ferdinand Lassalle in an 1862 speech in Berlin. He used this term to criticize the idea of a state with minimal government, comparing it to a night watchman whose sole duty was preventing theft.

The doctrines of conservative liberalism were propounded by the late nineteenth century's leading intellectual proponents of the night watchman state.

1992, Mark A. Graber, Transforming Free Speech: The Ambiguous Legacy of Civil Libertarianism, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 18:

For these neoLiberal^([sic]) Democrats of the Orange Book school remain determined to junk social liberalism for economic liberalism. Their guiding light is the Gladstonian ideal of a low tax, laissez-faire, “night-watchman state”.

2011 February 1, Tristram Hunt, “The coalition holds Britain's cultural fabric in contempt”, in The Guardian:

(political philosophy) Government that is limited to a bare minimum of functions, usually just military, police, and courts.

Ferdinand Lassalle
en:night-watchman state


free market

The very notion of 'integrated transport' has always appalled the free market instincts of the Conservatives, and still does.

2021 March 10, Christian Wolmar, “Integrated transport: A lot is said but little is being done”, in RAIL, number 926, page 50:

(economics) Any market in which trade is unregulated by government; an economic system free from government intervention.

mercat lliure

competitive market where buyers and sellers can operate without restrictions


objectivism

objectivism (countable and uncountable, plural objectivisms)


objectivist

What of the current moment, shaping up to be the fourth age of Rand? The Randian politicians are still in place: [Paul] Ryan is now boosted by a cabinet crammed with objectivists.

2017 April 10, Jonathan Freedland, “The new age of Ayn Rand: how she won over Trump and Silicon Valley”, in The Guardian:


libertarianism

libertarianism (countable and uncountable, plural libertarianisms)

/lɪbəˈtɛːɹɪənɪz(ə)m/

Nevertheless, advocates of individual freedom not only continue to exist, but are increasing in number. Refugees from the Old Right, the Old Left and the New Left, they are organizing independently under the New Right banner of libertarianism.

1971 January 10, Stan Lehr, Louis Rossetto, “The New Right Credo–Libertarianism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The peculiar brand of libertarianism in vogue within technology circles means a minority of members—a couple of outspoken misogynists—can disproportionately affect the behavior and mood of the group under the cover of free speech.

2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 4, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:

(economics, philosophy, politics) A political philosophy maintaining that all persons are the absolute owners of their own lives, and should be free to do whatever they wish with their persons or property, provided they allow others that same liberty.

(philosophy) The doctrine of free will, as opposed to necessitarianism.


anarcho-capitalism

From anarcho- + capitalism. Earliest extant attestation is in American author Karl Hess's essay “The Death of Politics”, originally published by Playboy, in March 1969. Even though American economist Murray Rothbard is credited with coining this word, its first possible appearance among his writings is in his 1971 essay “Know Your Rights”, published two years after Hess's essay.

Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism^([sic]), is simply the economic form of the libertarian ethic. Laissez-faire capitalism encompasses the notion that men should exchange goods and services, without regulation, solely on the basis of value for value. It recognizes charity and communal enterprises as voluntary versions of this same ethic. Such a system would be straight barter, except for the widely felt need for a division of labor in which men, voluntarily, accept value tokens such as cash and credit. Economically, this system is anarchy, and proudly so.

1969 March, Karl Hess, “The Death of Politics”, in Playboy:

Anarcho-capitalism is a creed new to the present age. Its closest historical links are with the “individualist anarchism” of Benjamin R. Tucker and Lysander Spooner of the late nineteenth century, and it shares with Tucker and Spooner a devotion to private property, individualism, and competition. Furthermore, and in contrast to Read and Rand, it shares with Spooner and Tucker their hostility to government officials as a criminal band of robbers and murderers.[…]

1971, Murray Rothbard, “Know Your Rights”, in WIN: Peace and Freedom through Nonviolent Action, volume 7, number 4, pages 6–10:

The second was shock therapy. Implemented briefly in the aftermath of the Soviet collapse, shock therapy aimed to construct a free market in post-communist Russia. It produced instead a species of mafia-dominated anarcho-capitalism.

1998, John Gray, False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, New York: The New Press, →ISBN, page 133:

(politics, economics) A political and economic philosophy that advocates the elimination of the state and other coercive institutions in favour of individual self-ownership and free market.

لاسلطوية رأسمالية

philosophy that advocates the elimination of the state and a self-regulating free market


neoliberalism

neoliberalism (countable and uncountable, plural neoliberalisms)

(US) The ideology associated with the New Democrats and the Democratic Leadership Council.


minarchist

Anarcho-capitalist, far-right, minarchist, ultra-liberal… the indefinable Argentine economist Javier Milei has revolutionized his country’s politics, rising in the polls with a jumble of ideas that are difficult to classify.

2023, Federico Rivas Molina, Javier Milei, the unclassifiable Argentine politician, in: El País, March 30 2023

minarquista

one who believes in government with the least necessary power over its citizens


minarchism

minarchism (countable and uncountable, plural minarchisms)

1971, coined by Samuel Edward Konkin III. Blend of minimum + -archy (“government”) + -ism (“system”) (alternatively, minimal).

blend

Belief in the desirability and practicality of minimum government.

minarkisme

government with the least necessary power over its citizens


Randian

en-adj

Randian (comparative more Randian, superlative most Randian)

more Randian (comparative)
most Randian (superlative)

Of or pertaining to Ayn Rand (1905–1982), Russian-born American novelist and philosopher, or her writings or objectivism.


neoliberal

neoliberal (comparative more neoliberal, superlative most neoliberal)

more neoliberal (comparative)
most neoliberal (superlative)

(often derogatory) In accordance with, or subscribing to, neoliberalism.


neoliberal

(often derogatory) A person who subscribes to neoliberalism.


Randianism

I used to think that this militant atheism was merely a function of the Randianism out of which most modern libertarians emerged two decades ago.

2001, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: the god that failed, page 207:


free marketeer

An advocate of a free market model of economy.


nonobjectivist

(philosophy) One who is not an objectivist.


neo-Objectivist

Someone who subscribes to certain beliefs which notably differ from but do not oppose in basic principle those of the Objectivist movement.


paleolibertarian

But Representative Ron Paul of Texas, who calls himself a paleolibertarian, came closest.

2007 May 4, Alessandra Stanley, “A Show Where Candidates Are More Prop Than Player”, in New York Times:


Rothbardian

Rothbardian (comparative more Rothbardian, superlative most Rothbardian)

more Rothbardian (comparative)
most Rothbardian (superlative)

Economists familiar with the Rothbardian tradition have taken the analysis even further, persuasively arguing that Somalia is much better without a state than it was with one.

2011, Robert P. Murphy, Mises Daily, Anarchy in Somalia:

(politics, economics) Of or pertaining to American economist, libertarian and anarcho-capitalist political philosopher Murray N. Rothbard, his work, or his theories.

rothbardiano

of or pertaining to Murray N. Rothbard or his theories


antilibertarian

antilibertarian (comparative more antilibertarian, superlative most antilibertarian)

more antilibertarian (comparative)
most antilibertarian (superlative)


cyberlibertarian

Whether it springs from the fear of government or hope for the wisdom of humankind, the cyberlibertarian ideology seeks a revolution.

1997, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, volume 12, page 217:

Geographically, the cyberlibertarian position had the advantage of being rooted in US political culture, where US institutions were the key vector for wide deployment of Internet innovation.

2002, Marc Raboy, Global media policy in the new millennium, page 237:

For the Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow, cyberlibertarian and a founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, freewheeling file-sharing and community-building seemed like an anticorporate be-in.

2009 August 2, Virginia Heffernan, “Hop on, Pop”, in New York Times:


cyberlibertarianism

In the Western states, the new cyberlibertarianism melds comfortably with traditional leave-me-alone-ism.

1996 December 9, Michael Kinsley, “America Tiptoes to the Left”, in Time, page 42:

Cyberlibertarianism refers to a perspective (some would say philosophy) which claims that cyberspace and the Internet should be regarded as uncontrolled and unregulated electronic spaces where anyone is free to be whatever they wish and express themselves however they like.

2004, David Bell, Cyberculture: The Key Concepts, page 43:

Unabashed cyber-libertarianism, combined with an avaricious and wholly unconflicted brand of consumerism, permeates America's digital elite.

2015, Jacob Silverman, Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection:

A form of libertarianism that views the Internet or cyberspace as a means of attaining individual existence without central governments.


libtard

Blend of liberal + -tard, equivalent to lib (“liberal”) + -tard.

[…] The libtards in Washington closed down the mines and your pa died with eight dollars in his pocket."

2009, Noel Hynd, The Prodigy, Damnation Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 76:

(US, slang, derogatory, politics) A stupid liberal or progressive; a person who presents or advocates liberal views in a stupid or illogical manner.


Randroid

At the same meeting I was interviewed by the philosopher and historian George Walsh, a follower of Ayn Rand. The interview turned out to be a disaster, for after it had already been scheduled Walsh heard from Harry Binswanger — a Randroid loyalist I used to call the Basil Rathbone of the Objectivist gang, since since he seemed to fit the image of a ruthless henchman — that I was a "liar."

2004, Tibor R. Machan, The Man Without A Hobby: Adventures of a Gregarious Egoist, Hamilton Books, →ISBN, page 107:

[…] She was a very unpleasant lady, and one of the most unpleasant things about her was that she was what you might call a 'born-again Randroid,' someone who'd taken Ayn Rand's teachings to such extremes that she made Rand herself look like a flaming liberal by comparison. You know the type?"

2007, Wayne Dwight Richards, Richard Ransdell, & LaDawna Word-Denslow, Dragon Drive: A Comedia Mundana, iUniverse, →ISBN:

Despite being populated by Randroids (Ayn Rand devotees) and sci-fi geeks, 4chan's literature board is another that continually surprises with clever content.

2011, Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, The Overlook Press, →ISBN:

(slang, derogatory) A supporter of Ayn Rand's philosophies, particularly an overzealous one.


libertard

If enough people aren't doing the above then the money spent on taxes is indeed wasted or even counterproductive and it's easy to see how many would become libertards or Randroids who, like Lincoln, would prefer to take their despotism straight, "unalloyed by the base metal of hypocrisy."

2005 June 18, Bret Cahill, “Taxes Aren't the Only Price of Liberty”, in humanities.philosophy.objectivism (Usenet), message-ID <1119109059.458575.236000@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>:

(US, slang, derogatory) Synonym of libtard (“a stupid libertarian”).


liquidationism

From liquidation + -ism, calque of Russian Ликвидаторство (Likvidatorstvo), possibly via German. First attested in 1919.

calque

Ликвидаторство

1919, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, The Spirit of Russia: Studies in History, Literature and Philosophy, Volume 2, translated from German by Eden and Cedar Paul, page 298.
In their endeavour to be a purely proletarian party they penalised the intelligentsia, and the more extreme and radical section among them even demanded that the party should become wholly a mass movement, for leadership, they said, was improper and must be abolished (must be "liquidated," whence this trend was called "liquidationism").

(politics, Marxism) In Marxist theory, the ideological liquidation (negation) of the revolutionary party program or the hierarchical leadership by party members.


seasteading

Blend of sea + homesteading, coined in a 1969 United States commission report (see quotations).

The territorial sea offers a new realm for individual and small business enterprises. The Commission recommends an experimental program to encourage new uses of the ocean through State leases of submarine areas within U.S. territorial waters. Such a program might be called "seasteading."

1969 January, Our Nation and the Sea: A Plan for National Action: Report of the Commission on Marine Science, Engineering and Resources, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 14, column 2:

Benefits from the acquisition of this new territory include the development of tremendous oil and gas reserves, new mineral, chemical and pharmaceutical resources, fish farms and such things as “seasteading” by private companies […]

1969, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates [...], volume 115, part 21, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28085, column 2:

"Seasteading" may one day assume the pioneering role in underwater colonization that homesteading played in past settlement of the grasslands of the American West.

1969, Saturday Review, volume 52, New York, N.Y.: Saturday Review Associates, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 52:

We're a young American couple without much money who wanted to make the planet our village. Seasteading (self-sufficient boat living) was the answer.

1977, New Age Journal, volume 3, Brookline Village, Mass.: New Age Communications, →OCLC, page 193:

The Raft was a seasteading community, a loose affiliation of over a hundred vessels that had been converted to floating farms and cities by climate refugees from small island nations that had been wiped out by rising waters.

2007, Pat Murphy, Paul Doherty, “Cold Comfort”, in Gardner Dozois, editor, The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-fourth Annual Collection, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Griffin, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 295:

He [Peter Thiel] has used his considerable wealth to support visionary research on anti-aging products, artificial intelligence, and "seasteading" (building new communities on the ocean, beyond the control of governments), among other initiatives.

2014, Darrell M. West, “Not a One-person Act”, in Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, →ISBN, part 2 (It Takes a Village to Make a Fortune), page 146:

As a seastead supporter wrote on one of our discussion forums, a key difference between the founders of nations and the creators of seasteads is that "seasteading aggresses against no one. That humans may settle new territory consistent with the principle of nonaggression is a remarkable development in the human experience."

2017 March, Joe Quirk, with Patri Friedman, “Home: This Isn’t Planet Earth”, in Seasteading: How Floating Nations will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians, New York, N.Y.: Free Press, →ISBN, part I (Seavilization Now), page 30:

The creation of permanent dwellings at sea, especially outside the territory claimed by any national government.


seastead

A permanent dwelling or settlement constructed at sea, outside the territory claimed by any national government.


minarchy

en-noun

minarchy (countable and uncountable, plural minarchies)

This "minarchy," often dubbed the "nightwatchman State," reduced to police (and possibly army), is their historical ideal - and even in present days that of philosopher Nozick, for instance.

2005, Serge-Christophe Kolm, Macrojustice: The Political Economy of Fairness, page 373:

In minarchy the owner of a property is the sole owner of the private propety and what comes out of it.

2011, Farhoud Rastegar, From Bushman to Bush: As History Has Brought Us to a Point of No Return, page 101:

But even the most minimal minarchy, at some point, must claim its citizens' exclusive allegiance

2012, Charles Johnson, “Toward a Dialectical Anarchism”, in Roderick T. Long, Tibor R. Machan, editors, Anarchism/Minarchism: Is a Government Part of a Free Country?, page 156:

Government with the least necessary power over its citizens.


yellow state

(US, idiomatic) A state of the United States where the Libertarian Party is influential.


anarcho-communism

(politics, economics) A form of anarchism advocating the abolition of the state and capitalism in favor of a horizontal network of voluntary associations through which people would satisfy their needs.


anarcho-communist

During the 1960s, anarcho-communists led the search for radical solutions to the historically novel problems facing young people. Above all, many people now wanted a say in the decisions which affected them.

1998, Richard Barbrook, “The Holy Fools”, in Mute, volume 1, number 11, →ISSN:

(politics, economics) A person who advocates anarcho-communism.


geolibertarianism

A political ideology that synthesizes libertarianism and Georgism, holding that land and other natural resources are common assets and thus individuals claiming them as private property must pay rent to the community.


LPUS

Libertarian Party (United States)
w:Libertarian Party (United States)

(politics) Initialism of Libertarian Party (United States).


libertarian communism

(anarchism, communism) Synonym of anarcho-communism


non-aggression axiom

non-aggression principle
non-aggression principle#English


non-aggression principle

(libertarianism) The legal or political principle asserting that initiating conflict against persons or their property, or threatening to do so, is illegitimate.


glibertarian

However, Ken completely ignores all other taxes, per the custom of the glibertarian.

2009 December 17, Chris Bellomy, “Re: Was Pitts right?”, in rec.sport.golf (Usenet):

The State of California is following Colorado Springs into the glorious future envisioned by Ayn Rand-addled glibertarians!

2010 April 20, Spartakus [username], “Re: CA's Budget Crisis Harbinger of Things to Come on National Scale”, in alt.politics.conservative (Usenet):

It's these guys versus all of us, yet half the people being rogered (Republicans and glibertarians and hell, half the Democrats) have been convinced the other side is a bigger threat to their well being than the people with all the power, money, and resources.

2011 February 11, Yankee Doodle Dandy [username], “Former Wingnut John Cole”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

(US, slang, derogatory) A disingenuous libertarian.


libertardian

(derogatory, offensive) A rightist libertarian.


Liberland

From Liber (denoting liberty or libertarianism) + -land. Created in April 2015.

Within a couple of months 200,000 people applied online for Liberland citizenship, many of whom said they'd move there as soon as possible.

2017, Jamie Bartlett, chapter 8, in Radicals, William Heinemann, →ISBN:

(neologism) A libertarian micronation (self-declared a sovereign state), located at Gornja Siga, in the border between Serbia and Croatia near the Danube river.


propertarianism

Faced with the dilemmas of democratic 'propertarianism', which have indeed not been fully […]

1974, Marcus Cunliffe, The right to property: a theme in American history, Sir George Watson lecture delivered in the University of Leicester, 4 May 1973:

Propertarianism joined to capitalist vigor destroyed meaningful commercial competition, but when it came to making good software, anarchism won.

1999, Eben Moglen, Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright:

Put most famously by John Locke, homesteading is central to anarcho-capitalism, rights-based libertarianism, and propertarianism.

2015, Eleanor Robertson, “The Herschel backpack: how Generation Y carries capitalism's mythologies”, in The Guardian:

(politics, libertarianism) The libertarian philosophy that promotes contractual relationships made voluntarily, as opposed to government-imposed ones.


LNC

Libertarian National Convention
w:Libertarian National Convention

(US politics) Initialism of Libertarian National Convention.


proprietarianism

A belief that property is an absolute right, sometimes to the extreme of considering it to overrule the human rights of others.


libertarianish

en-adj

libertarianish (comparative more libertarianish, superlative most libertarianish)

more libertarianish (comparative)
most libertarianish (superlative)


anticoercive

Dare I say that the danger to human liberty now is far more "anticoercive" than "coercive" utopianism? Both the anticoercive (meaning libertarian) and coercive (meaning Marxist) utopians share the goal of the withering away of the state.

2002, Peter Augustine Lawler, Aliens in America: The Strange Truth about Our Souls, page xxv:

Founded on such an assumption, the use of force for education's sake may even be described as anticoercive; indeed, to cultivate man's power of understanding is to cultivate his power to confront his circumstances open-eyed and detachedly.

2012, Nathan Rotenstreich, Order and Might, →ISBN, page 165:

For Erasmus's anticoercive heresy was about baptism, not about the state.

2013, John Keown, Robert P. George, Reason, Morality, and Law: The Philosophy of John Finnis, →ISBN, page lxi:

Opposed to coercion; anarchistic or libertarian.


libertarian Marxism

(Marxism) Marxism which rejects state authority as a method for abolishing capitalism.


liberaltarian

Coined by Brink Lindsey in 2006. Blend of liberal + libertarian.

2006 December 11, Brink Lindsey, “Liberaltarians”, in New Republic:


paleolibertarianism

A variety of libertarianism developed by anarcho-capitalist theorists Murray Rothbard and Llewellyn Rockwell that combines conservative cultural values and social philosophy with a libertarian opposition to government intervention.


liberaltarianism

But it means being open to the possibility that the old fusionism, battered and bruised as it is, may still hold as much promise for the advancement of libertarian policy goals as "liberaltarianism" ever will.

2009 February 13, Ross Douthat, “The Future of Liberaltarianism (II)”, in The Atlantic:

Insofar as they're prepared to exploit an opportunity for a game-changing convergence, they owe a debt of gratitude to Brink Lindsey and Will Wilkinson, whose indispensable work on what came to be called "liberaltarianism" was cut short by shortsightedness and discomfort with heterodoxy.

2011 October 20, Connor Friedersdorf, “Cautiously, Libertarians Reach Out to Occupy Wall Street”, in The Atlantic:

The reason why liberaltarianism was always doomed to fail is because, at the end of the day, progressivism is an all-encompassing ideology.

2015 March 13, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, “The only home for libertarians is on the right”, in The Week:

A variety of libertarianism that prioritises emancipation over maximal property rights and rejects minarchy.


unlibertarian

unlibertarian (comparative more unlibertarian, superlative most unlibertarian)

more unlibertarian (comparative)
most unlibertarian (superlative)


libertarianize

en-verb

libertarianize (third-person singular simple present libertarianizes, present participle libertarianizing, simple past and past participle libertarianized)

libertarianizes (present singular third-person)
libertarianizing (participle present)
libertarianized (participle past)
libertarianized (past)


libertarian Marxist

en-adj

libertarian Marxist (comparative more libertarian Marxist, superlative most libertarian Marxist)

more libertarian Marxist (comparative)
most libertarian Marxist (superlative)

(communism) Of or pertaining to libertarian Marxism.


libertarian Marxist

en-noun

libertarian Marxist (plural libertarian Marxists)

(communism) One who subscribes to libertarian Marxism.


small-l libertarian

small-l libertarian (plural small-l libertarians)

(chiefly US, politics) A person who holds libertarian views but is not a member of their country's "Libertarian Party".


conservatarian

(politics) A person whose political opinions combine traditional social conservatism with political and economic right-libertarianism.


minimal state

night watchman state
night watchman state#English


LFL

(scouting) Initialism of Learning for Life.

Libertarians for Life
w:Libertarians for Life

Lingerie Football League
w:en:Lingerie Football League

(sports, American football) Initialism of Lingerie Football League.

Legends Football League
w:en:Legends Football League

(sports, American football) Initialism of Legends Football League.


Gadsden flag

Named after politician Christopher Gadsden (1724–1805), who designed it in 1775 during the American Revolution.

(politics, historical) An American political flag with a yellow field depicting a timber rattlesnake coiled and ready to strike. Beneath the rattlesnake is the motto "Dont Tread on Me"


right-libertarianism

Coordinate term: left-libertarianism

The synthesis or attempted synthesis of libertarianism with conservatism and the alliance of certain libertarians with the Republican Party led to the development of conservative-libertarianism, which has obscured the character of right-libertarianism. In practice, right-libertarianism is often reduced to conservative-libertarianism.

2014, A. Terrance Wiley, Angelic Troublemakers: Religion and Anarchism in America, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 99:

A type of libertarianism that supports capitalist property rights and defends free market distribution of natural resources and private property.


left-libertarianism

Coordinate term: right-libertarianism

Unlike most versions of egalitarianism, left-libertarianism endorses full self-ownership, and thus places specific limits on what others may do to one's person without one's permission. Unlike the more familiar right-libertarianism (which also endorses full self-ownership), it holds that natural resources[…]may be privately appropriated only with the permission of, or with a significant payment to, the members of society.

2012, Hillel Steier, quoting Peter Vallentyne, “Left Libertarianism”, in Gerald F. Gaus, Fred D'Agostino, editors, The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 412:

This is in line with what we know of [John] Carpenter’s political attitudes, which on balance veer towards a kind of post-60s left-libertarianism.

2017 January 9, John Patterson, “They Live: John Carpenter's action flick needs to be saved from neo-Nazis”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:

A type of libertarianism that stresses both individual freedom and social equality, and advocates shared ownership of natural resources.


loonytarianism

Hasn't it dawned on you that the same forces that made communism unworkable also make loonytarianism unworkable?

2000 May 19, rose...@idt.net, “Re: The academic Left claims that 'fascism' is "Right".”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

John Stossel even seems to be trying to indoctrinate school children in the ways of radical Loonytarianism.

2000 July 28, Robert Calvert, “John Stossel's rantings”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

Absolute, utter nonsense. Loonytarianism is crap. Other than a few nut cases, there is NO support for those idiotic beliefs.

2001 September 4, righ...@sodangerous.com, “Re: Does zero tolerance contribute to school shootings?”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

(US, politics, derogatory) Libertarianism, viewed as untenable or absurd.


libertopianism

Conservative libertopianism is chock full of internal contradictions.

1997 December 15, BretCahill, “Re: All Men Are Angels”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

Thus we get back to the argument that Libertopianism provides protection for the rich only, […]

2000 September 9, John Merrall, “Re: How a Libertarian Capitalist Became a Libertarian Socialist”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

In 1991, the extropians also founded an e-mail list, catching the wind of the Internet typhoon and its high-tech libertopianism.

2004, James Hughes, Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human Future, page 166:

(US, politics, derogatory) Libertarianism, viewed as untenable or hopelessly idealistic.


loonytarian

As loonytarians are so fond of observing, no nation on the earth has embraced a libertarian system, and, indeed, even in the heyday of rugged individualism, 19th c. America, complete laissez faire was rejected.

1998 September 14, po...@hotmail.com, “Re: Atlas Shrugged is Trash”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

The only difference between Loonytarians and Communists is the class of people each party intends to oppress and which equal but opposite deep end each party want's to jump off of.

2000 July 28, Hercu...@webtv.net, “Re: John Stossel's rantings”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

Only loonytarians and other insane people see tyranny everywhere they move.

2007 December 11, Bob LeChevalier, “Re: Paul's Legislative Record - Claimed and Fact”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):


loonytarian

en-adj

loonytarian (comparative more loonytarian, superlative most loonytarian)

more loonytarian (comparative)
most loonytarian (superlative)

Of course your Ideas are a little extreme even by repug and loonytarian standards.

1998 August 25, kim overstreet, “Re: Another Warmonger Liberal Tries to Seize Power with Violence”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

Loonytarian beliefs are bogus. They always have been, and always will be.

The "loonytarian" model of little government influence produced massive problems by the end of the 19th century, continued on until the horrific excesses of market capitalism began to erode America.

2009 November 24, s...@above.com (quoted by Jerry Okamura), “Re: Sarah Palin's Book Is Already on Clearance”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

(US, slang, derogatory) Related to, characteristic of, or espousing libertarianism.


libertopian

I prefer to keep my feet on the ground and resist any attempt at change by either the libertopians or the utopian socialists.

1998 September 4, T.Asquith, “Re: Booming Corporate Economy Brings Layoffs”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

I see. So libertopians are in favour of government passing laws in favour of business. Figgers.

2000 August 23, John Merrall, “Re: How a Libertarian Capitalist Became a Libertarian Socialist”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

This tired old canard used ad nauseum^([sic]) that there is no such thing as"the people" or "the public" or "the public will" or "the public good" ie: the denial of any collective rights or collective powers or collective needs in a community, is merely ignorant denial of facts, usually done because any admission that a large group may have a good reason to impose it's collective will on an individual is anathema to libertopians.

2001 April 21, Scott Weiser, “Re: The GOP's Libertarian Problem”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

(US, politics, derogatory) A libertarian.


libertopian

libertopian (comparative more libertopian, superlative most libertopian)

more libertopian (comparative)
most libertopian (superlative)

The present chaos and misery of societies without functioning governments show the absurdity of the libertopian fantasy of freedom from government: We can only be free, prosperous, equal and safe under effective, accountable government.

2004, James Hughes, Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human Future, page xviii:

In U.S. history, 'libertopian' socialist enclaves were founded repeatedly and failed every time. Equity requires abatement of nuisance, and greedy rotten capitalists (working class freemen) will get stuck with the bill for cleaning up ansoc disasters, food and shelter for survivors, environmental reclamation, etc. Pray that ansocs don't experiment with nuclear power. One Chernobyl was enough.

2007, Wolf Devoon, Laissez Faire Law, page 200:

The persistent nonexistence of a long-planned libertarian colony of seasteading rafts (Robinson 2014), to pick one example from the list of unexecuted libertopian schemes, […]

2017, Ian Stoner, "Humans Should Not Colonize Mars", Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Volume 3, Issue 3, Fall 2017, page 339

(US, politics, derogatory) Related to, characteristic of, or espousing (a utopian or critically flawed strain of) libertarianism.


libertopia

But as long as your libertopia is imaginary, I guess you can't be bothered to imagine that it is imperfect.

1995 February 15, Mike Huben, “Re: LP Challenge to GOP”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

I have yet to see one libertopist explain how indigents have real rights in libertopia.

1997 November 18, BretCahill, “Who Reads Canned Nazispam?”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

In "libertopia" it would be easy for large corporation to institute large-scale oppression.

2003 May 4, Siobhan Medeiros, “Sorry Commies. Americans Cannot Be Charged For War Crimes”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

(US, politics, chiefly derogatory) A hypothetical utopian libertarian society or nation-state.


libertopist

PS: I don't think we can blame the "libertopists" for the existance^([sic]) of "transnational ruling bodies" that override local laws!

1998 November 18, J. Kendrick McPeters, “Re: Serious Question Regarding the "Social Contract"”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

First, libertopists exist only in your head.

2000 March 10, Jackson Harvey, “Re: Don't vote for John McCain!!!”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

(US, politics, derogatory) A libertarian and/or believer in the prospect of libertopia.


libertopic

libertopic (comparative more libertopic, superlative most libertopic)

more libertopic (comparative)
most libertopic (superlative)

Or more precisely, the rich are duping the ignorant with libertopic economics.

1999 October 29, BretCahill, “Re: Libertarians and Wealth”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

There is no such thing as a libertopic document, since libertopians are a figment of your imagination.

1999 October 30, Jackson Harvey, “Re: Critiques of Libertarianism 5th Anniversary”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

Reagan gave lip service to ibertopianism. His economy was a war economy, not a libertopic economy. His foreign policy was imperialist and militarist, not libertopic.

2001 May 13, Daedra Morrighan, “Re: Jefferson: Libertopianism Is A Disease”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):


libertoon

Blend of libertarian + toon, likely influenced by loony tune (“a silly or crazy person”), after the Looney Tunes animated series.

Only if your point was that you're as typically unprepared to defend your silly philosophy as most evangelical libertoons.

2000 August 16, Clave, “Re: Do you wish your party would say this...”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

You libertoons come in with your deceptive soundbites and half-baked ideas that play right into the hands of big business.

2001 April 12, John, “Re: Socialized Medicine vs. Libertarian Medicine? (Re: What if?)”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

You libertoons never seem to be interested in talking about making government work better, just dismantling it.

2012 January 24, unknown (quoted by jigo), “Re: The government does more harm than good”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):


Objectivism

Alternative letter-case form of objectivism (“philosophy based around Ayn Rand’s writings”)


conservative-libertarianism

The doctrines of conservative liberalism were propounded by the late nineteenth century's leading intellectual proponents of the night watchman state.

1992, Mark A. Graber, Transforming Free Speech: The Ambiguous Legacy of Civil Libertarianism, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 18:

The synthesis or attempted synthesis of libertarianism with conservatism and the alliance of certain libertarians with the Republican Party led to the development of conservative-libertarianism, which has obscured the character of right-libertarianism. In practice, right-libertarianism is often reduced to conservative-libertarianism.

2014, A. Terrance Wiley, Angelic Troublemakers: Religion and Anarchism in America, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 99:

A type of libertarianism that tries to balance freedom and individual liberty with a respect for virtue, tradition, and order.


Randite

Synonym of Randian (“a follower of Ayn Rand”)


lolbertarian

Yeah, I pegged you as that type years ago. Typical internet 'lolbertarian' clinging to a BOOTSTRAPS ideology that breaks down rather quickly...as your own business failure has indicated.

2010 March 15, The Exiled, V.2, “Satar is gonna get cut”, in alt.gothic (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

lol.. You're talking to a Lolbertarian.
They're the only people on planet Earth who make "liberals" look like they might be mature enough to have an age in two digits.

2019 August 26, fffurken, “Hell Takes Back One of its Own”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

Paul is a generic fair-weather lolbertarian which are a dime a dozen; prattling on about government overreach and "tyranny" when black man is prez, and then falls in line and is all achtung RAUS jawohl mien herr hup hup hup! when orange man is prez, like every other trumper out there

2020 April 8, bitrex, “Some Good News”, in sci.electronics.design (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

(US politics, Internet slang, derogatory) A libertarian.


BHL

bleeding-heart libertarianism
w:bleeding-heart libertarianism

(politics) Initialism of bleeding-heart libertarianism.


libertarian party

en-noun

libertarian party (plural libertarian parties)

(politics) A political party with libertarian values


Libertarian Party

(politics) A name used by several libertarian political parties worldwide, including:

(US politics) The Libertarian Party of the United States


libertarian socialist

libertarian socialist (plural libertarian socialists)

libertarian socialism
libertarian socialism


libertarian socialist

Of or pertaining to libertarian socialism.


don't tread on me

Calque of Late Latin nōlī mē tangere (literally “do not touch me”), from John 20:17 in the Bible.
The phrase was initially rendered as dont tread on me, without apostrophe, as dont was then an accepted contraction of do not. In some later versions, due to standards for apostrophes becoming more strict since the 18th century, the first word was changed to don't.

clq

American Revolutionary War
American Revolutionary War

A slogan, associated during the American Revolutionary War with freedom from British rule, and in more recent years with libertarianism and anti-government sentiments.


LINO

Modelled after RINO (“Republican in name only”).

As Glenn Beck was bashing Sarvis as a GPS-installing LINO on his show,,^([sic]) his muckraking journalists at TheBlaze "revealed" that Sarvis was "bankrolled" by an "Obama bundler."

2014 August 3, John Vaught Labeaume, “No Thanks, CPAC. This Libertarian Won't Attend a Conservative Love-Fest.”, in Reason Magazine:

Libertarian Party
w:Libertarian Party (United States)

(US politics, derogatory) Acronym of Libertarian in name only. Typically used by libertarian members of the U.S. Libertarian Party to describe Libertarians whose views perceived as insufficiently libertarian.