Definition of "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 the same liberty (noun)

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• "As far as political strategery goes, Yglesias's article is perfectly correct as a critique of what he calls libertarianism-that is, the sort of thing engaged in by soft limited-govermentalist outfits like Cato or the Libertarian Party."
• "So, look: if you are going to argue that libertarianism is BAD when a voting majority, or whoever happens to be in power in a dictatorship, is inclined to use the government to help minorities, you have to acknowledge that libertarianism is GOOD when a voting majority or the folks in power is inclined to use its power to hurt minorities."
• "David Bernstein: But less cheap, or certainly no more cheap, than the insinuation, seen here and on other threads, that libertarianism is somehow either responsible for, or an intentional accommodation to, racism, ...,"