Factions
Agorism
Geolibertarianism (see Georgism)
Left-libertarianism
Minarchism
Neolibertarianism
Paleolibertarianism
Politics is a process by which decisions are made within groups. ... Libertarianism, sometimes known as right-libertarianism, is a political philosophy[1] 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. ... Agorism is a radical left-libertarian political philosophy popularized by Samuel Edward Konkin III, who defined an agorist as a conscious practitioner of counter-economics (peaceful black markets and grey markets). ... Geolibertarianism (also geoanarchism) is a liberal political philosophy that holds along with other forms of libertarian individualism that each individual has an exclusive right to the fruits of his or her labor, as opposed to this product being owned collectively by society or the community. ... Georgism, named after Henry George (1839-1897), is a philosophy and economic ideology that follows from the belief that everyone owns what they create, but everything supplied by nature, most importantly land, belongs equally to all humanity. ... Historically, the term libertarianism was first coined by leftist followers of Mikhail Bakunin to describe their own, anti-statist version of socialism, as contrasted with the state socialism propounded by Karl Marx. ... In civics, minarchism, sometimes called minimal statism or small government, is the view that the size, role and influence of government in a free society should be minimal - only large enough to protect the liberty of each and every individual, without violating the liberty of any individuals itself, thus maximizing... Neolibertarianism is a political philosophy combining elements of libertarian and conservative thought that embraces incrementalism and pragmatism domestically, and a generally interventionist foreign policy based on self-interest, national defense and the expansion of freedom. ... Paleolibertarianism is a school of thought within American libertarianism founded by Murray Rothbard and Lew Rockwell, and closely associated with the Ludwig von Mises Institute. ...

Influences
Austrian School
Anarchism
Anarcho-capitalism
Classical liberalism
Objectivism
The Austrian School is a school of economic thought that rejects economists overreliance on methods used in natural science for the study of human action, and instead bases its formalism on a logic of action known as praxeology. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Anarcho-capitalism refers to an anti-statist philosophy that embraces capitalism as one of its foundational principles. ... Classical liberalism is a term used to describe the following: the philosophy developed by early liberals from the Enlightenment until John Stuart Mill the philosophy developed by early liberals from the Age of Enlightenment until John Stuart Mill and then revived in the 20th century by Friedrich von Hayek and... This article is about Ayn Rands Objectivist philosophy. ...

Ideas
Civil liberties
Free markets
Laissez-faire
Liberty
Non-aggression
Self-ownership
Free trade
To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A free market is an idealized market, where all economic decisions and actions by individuals regarding transfer of money, goods, and services are voluntary, and are therefore devoid of coercion and theft (some definitions of coercion are inclusive of theft). Colloquially and loosely, a free market economy is an economy... Laissez-faire is short for laissez faire, laissez passer, a French phrase meaning to let things alone, let them pass. First used by the eighteenth century Physiocrats as an injunction against government interference with trade, it is now used as a synonym for strict free market economics. ... The Statue of Liberty is a very popular icon of liberty. ... The non-aggression principle (also called the non-aggression axiom, anticoercion principle, or zero aggression principle) is an ethical prohibition against aggression, which is defined as the initiation of physical force or the threat of such upon persons or their property (the principle does not preclude retaliation against aggression). ... Self-ownership is the condition where an individual has the exclusive moral or legal right to control his or her own body and life. ... Free trade is an economic concept referring to the selling of products between countries without tariffs or other trade barriers. ...

Key issues
Parties
Economic views
Views of rights
Theories of law
The Austrian School of economics and the Chicago School of economics are important foundations of the economic system favored by modern libertarians —capitalism, where the means of production are privately owned, economic and financial decisions are made privately rather than by state control, and goods and services are exchanged in... Libertarians and Objectivists limit what they define as rights to variations on the right to be left alone, and argue that other rights such as the right to a good education or the right to have free access to water are not legitimate rights and do not deserve the same... Libertarian theories of law build on libertarianism or classical liberalism. ...