Political social and economic doctrine that promotes freedom and reject State intervention in all plane
Referred to as liberalism that social, economic and political doctrine that advocates individual freedom wishful thinking and drawing rejects the intervention of the State in civil matters. In addition, liberalism is a political and philosophical system that promotes civil liberties and who opposes the despotism (Government of one or several governing with absolute power). In opposition to the latter and in clear harmony with the liberal doctrine are representative democracy, the separation of powers and Republican principles, which are the mainstay of any liberalism on final accounts. Individual freedom, the maintenance of the rule of law, the progress of society, equality before the law, the right to private property and religious tolerance, are the main issues for which fight and fight the liberalism.
Non-intervention of the State, tolerance, free expression, and equality before the law, their bases
To the liberalism State should take the position of an arbitrator in regards to economic activity, intervening as little as possible, leaving the game to those who know. Tolerance, on the other hand is one of the most raised by liberalism flags, because the idea is that all proposals be respected without having any kind of imposition by an option or another, do allow citizens to choose freely and without any conditions. Free market, free exposition of ideas, and equality before the law, are the Foundation on which rests the liberalism. While liberalism is one uniform system throughout, can distinguish between different types according to the level to which we refer, whether economic, political or social. Economic liberalism aims to limit State interference in trade relations, promoting the reduction in taxes and eliminating regulations. To limit the intervention of the State economic liberalism believes that it is guaranteeing a level playing field and establish a perfect competition market, that Yes, by reducing to the maximum State participation shall be excluded all types of social assistance, such as for example subsidies. On the other hand, social liberalism defends freedom in the conduct of private individuals and in regard to their social relations. In this sense, for example, the legalization of drug use would be endorsed by the social liberalism. And finally the political liberalism proposes to give absolute power to citizens, who can choose their representatives in a completely free and sovereign manner. It is worth noting that each of these liberal currents has variants and more or less diehard defenders of the freedoms that are being promoted. John Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill, among many others, are some of the famous figures enrolled in the doctrine of liberalism. Meanwhile, liberalism called it the person who follows and promotes as a liberal.
Main criticisms
But as well as it has had famous promoters and broadcasters, also, liberalism has a caterva's detractors who consider him an unscrupulous, individualistic system and ends up installing poverty in the places where promotes it is, to quote some of the more recurrent criticism. Economic inequality is undoubtedly the situation that they attribute it to liberalism, that is, wherever he went the liberalism and there is this kind of scenario was designated as the maximum leader. As liberalism is totally opposed to any intervention of the State, critics, argue that there are inequalities is not allowed to intervene to correct them and correct them, then, this situation will lead inevitably to a worse state of affairs, where will send hand destitution without possibilities of any kind and the sidewalk in front the affluent class, large enterprises the considered who the great allies of this type of system. The father of economic liberalism and a real pioneer in this sense has been one of the previously mentioned, Adam Smith, is attributed to the promotion of the passive role that should have the State before the activity of individuals and companies. Liberalism will naturally deal with streamline its trade balance generated by the law of supply and demand.