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Liberty is popular.

But libertarianism, which gives a coherent set of principles to liberty-lovers, is not.

Talking about today's collectivism for long hours among ourselves will not make our ideas popular. We won't have any ideological influence like that.

We need to organize protests, write books and propaganda leaflets, hang posters and stickers on the walls, aim both the intellectuals and the lower middle-class. We need to popularize our message in songs, banners, flags, slogans, symbols.

We don't need a single symbol. We need a lot of symbols to convey our message in different ways to a lot of different people with different views, culture, and personal history. So the key words here are diversity and efficiency. The more you get symbolic competition on a specific sociological segment, the greater your chances to get powerful, efficient symbols for this electoral pool.

Every one knows the Gadsden Flag, but it is so American and libertarians are not the only ones to brandish it.

But it is a fine one, I admit.

I was wondering if we had European libertarians symbols/symbols of Liberty, Justice... - or symbols we could forge.

I like the quite universal symbols below:


The handshake heart symbolizes the goal of libertarianism: amity/concord/harmony through volontary cooperation among free individuals. It does not symbolize Love. It means that libertarians cherish volontary, peaceful cooperation.


The old logo of the Foundation for Economic Education represents the balance of Justice (equality of rights) and the torch of Liberty (limited government). Justice + Liberty = Free Society. It looks less American than the Statute of Liberty.


This is the symbol of die Weiße Rose, the White Rose, the non-violent/intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor. This iconic movement represents opposition to tyranny in the German psyche. For us, libertarians, it is a heroic revolt of young individualists against brutal collectivism and a call to action on the grounds of reason. As one can read in their leaflets, they considered that "Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and protection of the individual citizen from the arbitrary action of criminal dictator-states" were the principles that would form "the foundations of the new Europe".

[If it is not already done, I recommend the reading of their pamphlets. It is real-life V for Vendetta. Vibrant anti-collectivist, anti-raison d'Etat, humanistic, beautiful prose about individual freedom and responsability, statistics of the regime's murders, call to arms...]