Whats the difference between Neo-Conservatives and Libertarians?
What I’ve generally heard is that libertarians would be called “liberal” in Europe; I don’t know if this is exactly up-to-date though because American usage (which uses “liberal” to mean “progressive” or something like a Social Democrat party) tends to have a great deal of influence over language.
While we’re doing book recommendations… (Rovinsky’s review of it is a couse in neoconservative philosophy all on its own…) But, to the question; libertarians and neoconservatives are very much opposites. If we look at the ever-popular, two-axis political spectrum that looks at both economic and personal freedom as separate dimensions, then we see the American left and right as inverses. The right favors economic, but not personal, freedom; the left favors personal, but not economic, freedom. Libertarians favor both personal and economic freedom, while authoritarians favor neither. Neoconservatives migrated from the left during the Cold War, and preserved their distaste for the dimension of economic freedom, but have since combined that with a general skepticism of per
