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This page is both a listing and a point for collaborative work on identifying and documenting [[Caucus|caucuses]] through our Party's history. This list is alphabetical and not intended to impart any rank or comparison other than active and inactive. | This page is both a listing and a point for collaborative work on identifying and documenting [[Caucus|caucuses]] through our Party's history. This list is alphabetical and not intended to impart any rank or comparison other than active and inactive. | ||
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|[[Libertarian Anarchist Caucus]] | |[[Libertarian Anarchist Caucus]] | ||
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|[[Libertarian Party Audacious Caucus]] | |[[Libertarian Party Audacious Caucus]] | ||
|To advocate within the Libertarian Party for a more principled moral stance in opposition to government. It seeks to accomplish this by nominating candidates for both internal party positions and public office who have shown a strong commitment to the fundamental core beliefs of the libertarian philosophy. It is also committed to maintaining and increasing the Libertarian Party's involvement in outreach, education and activism, to promote the core beliefs of the libertarian philosophy in our community. This organization has recently declined, possibly before its angry severance of ties with [[Spike Cohen]]. | |To advocate within the Libertarian Party for a more principled moral stance in opposition to government. It seeks to accomplish this by nominating candidates for both internal party positions and public office who have shown a strong commitment to the fundamental core beliefs of the libertarian philosophy. It is also committed to maintaining and increasing the Libertarian Party's involvement in outreach, education and activism, to promote the core beliefs of the libertarian philosophy in our community. This organization has recently declined, possibly before its angry severance of ties with [[Spike Cohen]]. | ||
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|[[The Bear Nukes Caucus]] | |[[The Bear Nukes Caucus]] | ||
|The Bear Nukes Caucus is a single issue advocacy group focused on encouraging the Libertarian Party of the United States and its affiliates to push for the legalization of private ownership of weapons of mass destruction. It defines weapons of mass destruction to include nuclear weapons using both fission and fusion, chemical agents, weaponized bio-agents, explosively pumped flux compression generators, HERF guns, dirty bombs, antimatter annihilation weapons or any other extremely dangerous device or substance conceivable. | |The Bear Nukes Caucus is a single issue advocacy group focused on encouraging the Libertarian Party of the United States and its affiliates to push for the legalization of private ownership of weapons of mass destruction. It defines weapons of mass destruction to include nuclear weapons using both fission and fusion, chemical agents, weaponized bio-agents, explosively pumped flux compression generators, HERF guns, dirty bombs, antimatter annihilation weapons or any other extremely dangerous device or substance conceivable. | ||
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|[[Christian Liberty Caucus of the Libertarian Party]] | |[[Christian Liberty Caucus of the Libertarian Party]] | ||
|Seeing the Libertarian Party through the eyes of '''Jesus''' and helping the Libertarian Party see '''Christ''' in Christians. | |Seeing the Libertarian Party through the eyes of '''Jesus''' and helping the Libertarian Party see '''Christ''' in Christians. | ||
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|[[List of Libertarian Party Caucuses#Libertarian Party Classical Liberal Caucus|Libertarian Party Classical Liberal Caucus]] | |[[List of Libertarian Party Caucuses#Libertarian Party Classical Liberal Caucus|Libertarian Party Classical Liberal Caucus]] | ||
|The purpose of the Classical Liberal Caucus is to advance and protect the principles of Liberalism in the Libertarian Party. | |The purpose of the Classical Liberal Caucus is to advance and protect the principles of Liberalism in the Libertarian Party. | ||
By promoting the activism and candidacy of Classical Liberals in the Libertarian Party, the Classical Liberal Caucus will strive to hold it to the principles of philosophers such as Thomas Paine, John Locke, and Friedrich Hayek. | By promoting the activism and candidacy of Classical Liberals in the Libertarian Party, the Classical Liberal Caucus will strive to hold it to the principles of philosophers such as Thomas Paine, John Locke, and Friedrich Hayek. | ||
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|Libertarian Party Liberation Caucus | |[[Libertarian Party Liberation Caucus]] | ||
|The LPLC advocates for libertarian positions on social issues, works to build coalitions to achieve social freedom and works to create and maintain space for all freedom lovers in the party | |The LPLC advocates for libertarian positions on social issues, works to build coalitions to achieve social freedom and works to create and maintain space for all freedom lovers in the party | ||
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|[[Libertarian Party Mises Caucus]] | |[[Libertarian Party Mises Caucus]] | ||
|The purpose of the caucus is to promote Austrian economics within the Libertarian Party, to stress the importance of sound economics as critical to the Libertarian Party message, and to advocate applying the science of human action—praxeology—in Libertarian Party efforts to counter the statism of both Democrats and Republicans. It's platform emphasizes: Property Rights, Self-Determination, Economics and Money, as well as decorum in debate, tolerance of lifestyle choices and rejection of "tribal" identity politics. | |The purpose of the caucus is to promote Austrian economics within the Libertarian Party, to stress the importance of sound economics as critical to the Libertarian Party message, and to advocate applying the science of human action—praxeology—in Libertarian Party efforts to counter the statism of both Democrats and Republicans. It's platform emphasizes: Property Rights, Self-Determination, Economics and Money, as well as decorum in debate, tolerance of lifestyle choices and rejection of "tribal" identity politics. | ||
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|Libertarian Party Wild Caucus | |Libertarian Party Wild Caucus | ||
|The Wild Caucus seeks to represent Naturalism and 'eco-minded' politics within the Libertarian Party, calling itself, "The LP's Green Caucus". The organization seeks to promote Voluntaryist solutions to modern social and economic issues via a return to liberty and a return to nature; supporting mutual aid, decentralization, and to some extent a return to 'natural ways of life' and 'small-scale society'. | |The Wild Caucus seeks to represent Naturalism and 'eco-minded' politics within the Libertarian Party, calling itself, "The LP's Green Caucus". The organization seeks to promote Voluntaryist solutions to modern social and economic issues via a return to liberty and a return to nature; supporting mutual aid, decentralization, and to some extent a return to 'natural ways of life' and 'small-scale society'. The caucus' platform stresses combating polluters, conserving nature, ending subsidization and corporate lobbying, promoting nuclear power, legalizing organic recreational substances, promoting Pharmacognosy and natural medicine, and creating community-based ways to provide for those in need. | ||
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The Reform Caucus of California is dedicated to the reformation of the Libertarian Party of California in a manner that focuses on making us an effective political party rather than a social club. We affirm that a political party's goal is to disseminate its principles and to get candidates elected. We believe that California needs a Libertarian Party; a party that promotes liberty and is designated to win elections in the state of California. | The Reform Caucus of California is dedicated to the reformation of the Libertarian Party of California in a manner that focuses on making us an effective political party rather than a social club. We affirm that a political party's goal is to disseminate its principles and to get candidates elected. We believe that California needs a Libertarian Party; a party that promotes liberty and is designated to win elections in the state of California. | ||
=Inactive or Potentially Inactive Caucuses= | ==Inactive or Potentially Inactive Caucuses== | ||
==[[Adequate Defense Caucus]]== | ==[[Adequate Defense Caucus]]== | ||