Bleeding-Heart Libertarianism
Current that unites free markets and individual freedoms with concern for social justice, holding that economic freedom must also concretely improve the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable.
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In one sentence
I want economic and individual freedom that also lifts the poorest out of misery, uniting the free market with compassion for social justice.
Political topics
Profile across mindedfolk
- Very strong · Federal
Structure
- Strong · Democracy
Representation
- Very strong · Liberty
Power
- Very strong · Multiculturalism
Immigration
- Strong · Internationalist
Nationalism
- Balanced
Economy
- Strong · Free market
Free market
- Strong · Irreligious
Religion
- Strong · Progressive
Morality
- Leaning · Technology
Technology
What sets this ideology apart
Structure
Leans further toward federal than 87% of the 263 ideologies in the catalog.
Ideology median 38This ideology 90
Of all the topics, Structure is where it stands furthest from the rest.
Economy
On Economy, it sits close to the catalog median.
Ideology median 58This ideology 46
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
Personalities
Friedrich Hayek
An Austrian economist, Hayek championed the free market and spontaneous order, warning that central planning leads to serfdom and suppresses dispersed knowledge, becoming a reference of 20th-century liberalism.
Closest, by dimension
PoliticallyVitalik ButerinProgrammer98%
SociallyPaul RomerEconomist97%
EconomicallyAlexis de TocquevillePhilosopher and statesman99%
Other compatible profiles
Political theoryBenjamin TuckerAnarchist97%
Intellectual lifeHal FinneyCryptographer96%
BusinessJosiah WarrenInventor, Manufacturer, and Anarchist Philosopher96%
Intellectual lifePhil ZimmermannCryptographer96%
Political theoryÉmile ArmandIndividualist anarchist96%
Intellectual lifeRandolph BourneEssayist95%
Intellectual lifeLysander SpoonerJurist95%
ActivismEzra HeywoodIndividualist anarchist95%
The most distant
Countries
Reference country
New Hampshire (United States)
Libertarian-fiscal regionA small state in the northeastern United States, New Hampshire is known for its strong libertarian culture, low taxation, absence of a state income tax, and a motto that exalts liberty above all.
Other close countries
California (United States)
Techno-progressive regionThe most populous US state, California is a global hub of technology and culture, with strongly progressive, environmentalist, and technocratic politics and a gigantic, innovative market economy.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyColorado (United States)Liberal Democratic region92%
SociallyVirginia (United States)Moderate Democratic region92%
EconomicallyArgentinaFederal republic with market reforms98%
The most distant
Free Territory (Makhnovshchina)
1918–1921During the Russian Revolution, Makhno's Free Territory was an anarchist experiment in Ukraine, with self-managed peasant communes and popular militias that rejected both the White state and Bolshevik power.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyAnarchist Aragon and Catalonia1936–193986%
SociallyParis CommuneMarch–May 187180%
EconomicallyGrand Duchy of Tuscany1569–185995%
The most distant
Ideological proximity
Close ideologies
Closest within Libertarian
- Libertarian
Geolibertarianism
Synthesis of libertarianism and Georgism that combines free markets and individual freedoms with the taxation of land value, seen as a common resource, to fund the minimal state without punishing labor.
- Libertarian
Classical Liberalism
Original branch of liberalism that defends natural rights, property, free markets, and a minimal state, seeing individual freedom and the strict limitation of power as the foundations of a just society.
- Libertarian
Minarchism
Libertarian branch that defends a minimal state limited to police, courts, and defense, leaving everything else to the market and private initiative, to protect individual rights without oppressing freedom.
Closest in other spectrums
- Anarchist
Egoist Anarchism
Current founded by Max Stirner in The Ego and Its Own (1844), which rejects the state, morality, religion and rights as spooks and proposes voluntary unions of egoists who associate only while it serves them.
- Left
Postmodernism
A plural critique of universalism, linear progress, and grand narratives. In a Foucauldian reading, genealogy and power/knowledge analysis show how institutions, norms, and discourses produce subjects and open possibilities for local resistance.
- Center
Green Liberalism
Current that unites individual freedom, markets, and democracy with the ecological agenda, defending sustainability, rights, and innovation to reconcile economic prosperity with effective environmental protection.
The most distant ideology
ReactionaryismFar-Right26%