Are you left or right wing?

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Mr Khan said:

Kantor said:
The two terms can have so many different meanings, it's impossible to really tell.

But going by the common definition of left being large government and right being small government, I'm right-wing.

Libertarianism is an ideal about the role of government as a whole, rather than a promotion of a certain life-way

I'd actually disagree. Libertarianism is a moral philosophy. The basis being the non-Agression principle and self-ownership with the derived conclusions being property rights, decentralized power systems, etc, etc. So in a way, it is a promotion of a lifestyle, one which all persons adhere to the non-agression axiom and its derivations as well as one in which all persons agree with the ideal of self-ownership. Even if the state were not to exist (an anarchic society) libertarianism would still exist. That is also why capitalist libertarians oppose corporatism (which doesn't exist without government) just as much as socialists. 

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/libertarianism/