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
Many
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
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]
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
- Debates within libertarianism
- Electoral alliance
- Green libertarianism
- Left-libertarianism
- Libertarian Democrat
- Libertarian Party (United States)
- Libertarian Republican
- List of libertarian political parties
- New Left
- Old Right
- Outline of libertarianism
- Radical centrism
- Republican Liberty Caucus
- Right-libertarianism
Notes
- LewRockwell.com. May 2, 2002.
- LewRockwell.com. June 1, 2004.
- ^ Hayek, Friedrich (1960). "Why I Am Not a Conservative". University of Chicago. Archived from the original on March 24, 2005. Retrieved March 24, 2005.
- National Review Online. March 2, 2001.