§ The hall of

Libertarian Capitalist

The U.S. Libertarian Party, represented by figures like Gary Johnson, embodies Libertarian Capitalism by advocating for minimal taxation, deregulation, free trade, and privatization of public services. The party opposes most government interventions while upholding civil liberties and the democratic process, ensuring voluntary market exchanges with limited state oversight.

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Social variants

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Libertarian Capitalist · cell 5·8

§ The territory

What it believes

The state shrunk to a sliver and the market grown to fill the space: defense, courts, police — perhaps — and everything else, from roads to schools to money, provided competitively by consent.

The appeal

It takes the capitalist case to its logical conclusion and pays the consistency premium: no bailouts, no subsidies, no exceptions for friends — a purity every crony episode advertises.

Where it breaks

Public goods are its permanent embarrassment: defense, contagion, climate — the textbook cases where consent underprovides — and its answer ('markets will find a way') has the structure of faith wherever it lacks an existence proof.

Among its neighbours

The Capitalist above still accepts the referee this cell is whittling. The Conservative Libertarian beside it keeps tradition as the binding agent. Below, the Paleo-Libertarian does exactly that with harder edges. This row's far end, the Luxemburgist, shares only the distrust of the state's guns.

§ Featured · the definitive faces

Figures — real and imagined — who share the Libertarian Capitalist base ideology. They differ only on the third axis: from radical to restorationist, each is a different face of a Libertarian Capitalist.