Voluntaryism on the 12 Axes

Voluntaryism goes back to 19th century writers such as Auberon Herbert, who coined the term, and to the anti-state individualists around Benjamin Tucker and Lysander Spooner, whose No Treason (1867) denied that the Constitution binds anyone who did not consent to it. Modern voluntaryists, such as Carl Watner and The Voluntaryist newsletter, argue that taxation and law backed by force are illegitimate, that voting legitimizes coercion, and that society should rest on contracts, charity and free association. They reject violent revolution too. Compared with Anarcho-Capitalism, voluntaryism puts more weight on method: nonviolence, nonvoting and personal example rather than political strategy. Compared with Right-Libertarianism, it accepts no state at all.

• Anarcho-Capitalism 89%Anarcho-capitalism wants to abolish the state and replace it with free markets, so that courts, security and every public service would be provided by private, competing firms.
• Right-Libertarianism 75%Right-libertarianism wants a minimal state limited to police, courts and defense, with free markets, strong property rights and very low taxes, and broad freedom in personal life.
• Classical Liberalism 68%Classical liberalism defends individual liberty, private property, free markets and the rule of law, with a limited government whose main job is to protect citizens' rights.
• Anarcho-Egoism 68%Anarcho-egoism is an anarchist philosophy based on Max Stirner, rejecting the state, morality and every fixed ideal that claims authority over the individual, in favor of free unions of egoists.