There are only five kinds of libertarians?
What about the Randians, the Heinleinians, and the Jeffersonians?
That’s eight. Who else got left out?
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Political taoism. Left-libertarianism — the idea that freedom can’t be achieved in an environment with individual property. Self-deluding liberaltarians.
Reason commenter libertarianism – the idea that all government (and most corporate) activity is part of a giant plot to keep them from sweet, sweet weed.
“Don’t Even Try to Give Me a Fucking Label” Libertarianism.
Because no matter what you call me, or how you attempt to define me, and squeeze me into some well defined bucket (let’s, call it an “identity”), I will find a way to prove that your description does NOT apply to ME!
Grumpy, Bashful, and Doc; those are the three that I always forget, myself.
Is there a brand of libertarianism that isn’t about purist orthodoxy and instead just focuses on individual freedom? Not as long as people can’t agree on any definition of freedom and remain completely ignorant about such things as the Ninth Amendment and also can’t go ten minutes without complaining about taxes and don’t find The Life of Brian funny when someone mentions aquaducts.
My libertarian leanings are hard to express in a world where libertarians are often thought of as domestic terrorists who eschew taxation and license plates. I’ve met some of those people, and they are scary. I understand many feminists’ denial of the feminist label, since I have similar feelings about the libertarian label.
Grumpy, Bashful, and Doc; those are the three that I always forget, myself.
Winner.
They do say if you want ten opinions ask five libertarians.
This is why the pro-freedom movement has such trouble, there are many different sects (a word I use advisedly but also intentional) each one claiming to be the one, pure version. And thus rather than making common cause to increase freedom from government there is too much infighting. Statist, on the other hand, just keep wanting to make government bigger.
The downfall of the republic was the 17th amendment. Populism are us.
I tend to straddle the following categories:
Classical liberal (Madison, Lord Acton, Tocqueville, von Mises, Hayek)
Neo-Objectivist (Randian without the cultishness and the intolerances)
Heinleinian (let’s set off a rocket and live for much longer!)