LIBERTARIANISM Etymology. History. Konkin’s History of the Libertarian Movement.

LIBERTARIANISM

Etymology. History. Konkin’s History of the Libertarian Movement.

1 – One is a libertarian by sentiment.

2 – Libertarians hold either this sentiment or a moral bias, or a political bias that supports this sentiment. Or a philosophical position that supports this sentiment.

3 – Classical liberalism, the american tradition, constitutionalism and the cult of the founding fathers all profess liberty, they are therefore libertarian, but the philosophy is classical liberalism not libertarianism.

4 – Libertarianism is an articulated philosophy written by rothbard as a means of providing an argumentative ethical response to socialism and postmodernism.

5 – Libertarianism is an ideology that makes use of rothbard’s arguments, but also which is inspirationally argued on moral grounds rather than rhetorically defended.

6 – Anarcho capitalism is an extension of rothbardian libertarianism to expressly include Austrian economics, and has greater emphasis on institutions (via hoppe and block) and less on moral or abstract ethical arguments (rothbard).

In colloquial language libertarianism is used imprecisely, instead of the correct ‘libertarian’ to refer to all libertarian biases, preferences, ideologies and philosophy,whether they be sentimental classical liberal, libertarian, liertarianism, or anarcho capitalism, or some other variation such as objectivism.