Minarchism

Minarchism, sometimes clumsily called minimal statism, is the view that government should be as small as possible. See classical liberalism and the more radical anarcho-capitalism.

Radical minarchists usually agree that government should be restricted to its "guardian state" functions of government (police, justice), but some other minarchists include essential infrastructure (roads), which infrastructures might, by a slippery slope, be made to include quite a lot (schools, hospitals, money).

• Oppose: anarchism, statism?, totalitarianism, socialism, communism, collectivism.