[QUIZ!] *** What kind of libertarian are you??? ***

[Sentient Void]

Took about 6 months to a year for me. All of which was riddled with my Stockholm Syndrome to the State and a guilty, guilty, self-hating resistance to Ancap through my cognitively dissonant adhoc defenses for the State.

 

[realtonygoodwin]

Well, since ancapism is the logical conclusion of libertarianism, minarchism and the unicorn of 'limited government'... if one has a thirst for knowledge and debate on such issues... I'd say a majority who are honest with themselves and in a quest for truth will naturally, ultimately, end up as ancaps.

"Yes, I know and acknowledge that the State is the most easily corruptible, most inefficient and wasteful, lowest quality and miserable customer service type of institution ever known to mankind - but we *must* grant it a legal monopoly on violent coercion and all other most important aspects of our society!!!"

No offense, 'Objectivists' / Randroids? Ayn Rand weeps.

Well, I am a libertarian/minarchist because I am a Constitutionalist. I do believe there are a few things that the federal government is supposed to do, like national defense. I am not necessarily a minarchist because I believe the Federal Government is completely inept at everything except national defense. I believe the federal government has a role, and that role is to protect it's citizens from others imposing on their rights.

 

[0zzy]

I'm a Left-libertarian? LIES!

 

[Annihilia]

http://mises.org/media.aspx?action=category&ID=87

I have to admit, that was the case here (in tandem with Molyneux's UPB).

 

[Wesker1982]

that role is to protect it's citizens from others imposing on their rights.

You can't protect rights by violating them, jussssssss sayin!

Read or listened to For a New Liberty yet? JW!

 

[realtonygoodwin]

huh? Who said anything about violating rights?

 

[johnrocks]

Surprising, I picked Small L prior to taking the test.


You Scored as Minarchist

Minarchists are libertarians who advocate a strictly limited government and usually a more decentralized form of it. Minarchists may vary in the degree to which they think that government should be limited, although the bare bones position is essentially nothing more than police, courts and the military. Minarchists tend to think that some minimum level of government is a necessary evil, or at least an inevitability. The contemporary libertarian movement in America is dominantly minarchist, although it has had a long history of dialogue and debate between minarchist and anarchist libertarians.

 

[ClayTrainor]

huh? Who said anything about violating rights?

Governments (as we know them) can only exist by violating the property rights of the individual. (taxation)

There is no proper role for such an organization, any more than there is a proper role for the Mafia.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Governments (as we know them) can only exist by violating the property rights of the individual. (taxation)

There is no proper role for such an organization, any more than there is a proper role for the Mafia.

qft

 

[realtonygoodwin]

Nonsense. They can tax corporations, levy tariffs, or fines. If you completely got rid of the personal income tax, the Federal government will still have the same revenue it had in 1998. (ie, more than enough to function in its intended role)

 

[Southron]

Paleo-Lib according to your survey.

 

[ClayTrainor]

Nonsense.

What is?

They can tax corporations, levy tariffs, or fines.

Yea, They can steal private property from people in all sorts of different ways. So what?

If you completely got rid of the personal income tax, the Federal government will still have the same revenue it had in 1998. (ie, more than enough to function in its intended role)

I'm all for abolishing income taxes, for sure, however it's delusional to believe an organization will not grow and breed corruption, once you grant it the power to extort property from people.

 

[realtonygoodwin]

Governments (as we know them) can only exist by violating the property rights of the individual. (taxation)

is what I was responding to.

 

[ClayTrainor]

is what I was responding to.

And that's not nonsense. Why are you saying it is?

Governments (as we know them) are entirely financed through taxation of privately owned property. You disagree with this?

 

[Theocrat]

My Score

You Scored as "Small L" libertarian

Small l libertarians are libertarians, usually of the minarchist variety, who do not particularly identify with the official Libertarian Party or are not active in it, or may even actively oppose it. Small l libertarians are likely to view the Libertarian Party as moving in too moderate of a direction. Small l libertarian may tend to be more radical than many official Libertarian Party members. Some small l libertarians eventually transition to agorism, a completely apolitical approach to libertarianism.

"Small L" libertarian
75%
Agorist
67%
Minarchist
58%
Left-libertarian
58%
Paleo-libertarian
50%
Anarcho-capitalist
33%
Geo-libertarian
33%
Libertarian socialist
8%
Neo-libertarian
8%

I think I've just shown that theocrats can be libertarian in their political philosophy.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

I think I've just shown that theocrats can be libertarian in their political philosophy.

Of course! Jesus was.

 

[Jingles]

Anarcho-capitalist
100%
Left-libertarian
83%
Agorist
83%
"Small L" libertarian
83%
Minarchist
42%
Paleo-libertarian
33%
Geo-libertarian
0%
Neo-libertarian
0%
Libertarian socialist
0%

 

[gwax23]

You Scored as Minarchist
Minarchists are libertarians who advocate a strictly limited government and usually a more decentralized form of it. Minarchists may vary in the degree to which they think that government should be limited, although the bare bones position is essentially nothing more than police, courts and the military. Minarchists tend to think that some minimum level of government is a necessary evil, or at least an inevitability. The contemporary libertarian movement in America is dominantly minarchist, although it has had a long history of dialogue and debate between minarchist and anarchist libertarians.


Minarchist
83%
Left-libertarian
75%
Anarcho-capitalist
67%
Neo-libertarian
67%
Agorist
58%
"Small L" libertarian
50%
Paleo-libertarian
42%
Geo-libertarian
25%
Libertarian socialist

 

[Occam's Banana]

[TABLE="width: 20%, align: left"]
[TR]
[TD]Anarcho-capitalist[/TD]
[TD]100%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Left-libertarian[/TD]
[TD]75%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]"Small L" libertarian[/TD]
[TD]67%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Minarchist[/TD]
[TD]58%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Agorist[/TD]
[TD]58%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Paleo-libertarian[/TD]
[TD]58%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Neo-libertarian[/TD]
[TD]0%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Libertarian socialist[/TD]
[TD]0%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Geo-libertarian[/TD]
[TD]0%[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

I'm at least generally familiar with all the classifications here - except "Neo-libertarian." What is that?

(Apparently, I'm not one, whatever it is ... so it must be something bad ... )

 

[Noble Savage]

you forgot anarcho primitivist