What is the difference between classical liberalism, neoliberalism and libertarianism?

[u/alexfreemanart]

Could you please help me? What are the differences between these three? In what ways do they disagree with each other?

[u/spookyjim___]

Well 1. This is a sub for “classical libertarianism” which was a label that was starting to be used by libertarian socialists for a bit since the term “libertarian” used to explicitly refer to anarchism and libertarian socialism

You’re asking the difference between something else entirely, however I can try to explain

1. Classical liberalism - this is what most Americans mean when they refer to themselves as “libertarian”, classical liberalism is just the way liberalism started out during the 18th century when liberal political theory and bourgeois revolutions were becoming bigger, it supports all the things that other liberal tendencies support such as representative democracy, capitalist economics, and natural rights philosophy, but differentiates itself by often advocating for a small state (minarchy), support laissez-faire style free market capitalism, often being against most if not all taxation, mainly supporting the petit-bourgeois over the national-bourgeois, and often with their minarchist position, often support federalism/confederalism and successionism

Also I just got busy with something so I’ll come back and edit this comment with the other two ideologies lol