Libertarian thought

A theoretical-political systematization around its main enemies: democracy and the State

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze the main theoretical categories of libertarian thought in their relationship with democracy and the State. For this, the first part will be marked by the significance and foundation around the conception of property, as well as the research and discussion of its main thinkers on central topics such as freedom and coercion. Subsequently, it will be necessary to understand not only the substantial theoretical differences between classical liberalism and libertarianism, but also the paleolibertarian current, which emerged in the 90s. Then, we will analyze the libertarian concept, and the implications it has for life in society, as well as the paradigm shift in the duties and rights of citizenship that this thought proposes. Finally, we will work on the concepts of State and democracy from minarchist and libertarian anarcho-capitalist theory, understanding them as antagonistic to the ways in which the political, legal and social structure of the Argentine Republic is organized. This acquires special importance, since, after 40 years of interrupted democracy, the Argentine nation is commanded by a government that professes said liberal-libertarian doctrine, and that, paradoxically to its thinking, assumes power through the constitutional mechanisms that it questions. In relation to this discordance, we will expose certain anarcho-capitalist experiences that the current government administration uses to carry out its program, for which we will observe that the current theoretical criteria used by said administration are not revolutionary, but rather resignations of models already implemented in history.