A movement for people who believe individual autonomy comes first.
Not religious, not atheist, not agnostic — just done with tribes. The Autonomist Party starts from one rule: do not violate another person’s autonomy. From there, we build law, justice, and government funding with common sense.
This is the early home of The Autonomist Party — a political & social movement for people who are tired of left vs. right and just want a fair, moral baseline for everyone.
Core Principles of the Autonomist Party
These are the anchors. Every policy should be traceable back to one of these ideas.
“Don’t violate my autonomy — I won’t violate yours.”
The state’s job is not to control belief, lifestyle, or opinion. Its job is to protect each person’s ability to live their own life without being harmed, threatened, or coerced by others.
- Adults are free in how they live, love, and identify.
- Children are protected until they are capable of true informed consent.
- Government is limited to preventing and punishing real harms.
Justice rooted in consequences — not excuses.
A free society cannot exist without law and consequence. Autonomy demands accountability — those who deliberately violate another’s life, liberty, or property forfeit certain rights until justice is restored.
- Punishment must be swift, proportional, and decisive.
- Protection of the innocent is always the first priority.
- Rehabilitation is welcome — but repeat, serious offenses are not tolerated.
Autonomy applies to the unborn, too.
If autonomy matters, it cannot begin only at birth. A developing child is not a “maybe-person” — it is a future autonomous human whose life deserves protection.
- We take a pro-life stance grounded in autonomy, not theology.
- We recognize rare medical emergencies and hard edge-cases — but not convenience abortions.
- We favor radical honesty: people should understand exactly what abortion is before choosing it.
Maximum freedom for adults, maximum caution for children.
An adult should be free to choose their own identity, beliefs, and lifestyle. A child, however, does not yet have full autonomy — so adults must not impose irreversible decisions on them.
- Support for adults’ freedom in sexuality and identity.
- Opposition to irreversible medical interventions on children’s bodies.
- Parental rights respected — but never above a child’s safety and future autonomy.
Key Positions (First Draft Platform)
This is a living outline. It will evolve — but always under the same rule: protect autonomy, demand responsibility.
Free Speech Without Illusion
“Abridging” free speech means the state limiting the words you are allowed to say. Autonomists oppose censorship, but accept consequences when words directly and demonstrably cause harm — fraud, threats, incitement of specific violence, defamation with real damage.
Crime & Public Safety
The justice system exists first and foremost to protect the autonomy of law-abiding citizens — not to continuously gamble on people who prove they will harm others again.
- Swift, reliable sentencing for serious violent crime.
- Clear lines: you violently violate others, you lose freedoms.
- Meaningful second chances for those who truly change — not endless cycles of excuse.
Economy & Government Funding
Autonomy means being able to keep the fruits of your work — but also accepting that some shared funding is needed: courts, policing, defense, infrastructure.
- Simple, transparent taxation — no thousand-page loophole maze.
- Welfare safety nets that help people back to their feet, not trap them forever.
- Fraud and abuse aggressively prosecuted — it’s theft from honest citizens.
Cultural Issues
Autonomists can be religious, non-religious, conservative, or socially liberal — as long as they accept that no one gets to impose their beliefs by force on others.
- Family, work ethic, and responsibility are encouraged — not mandated by law.
- People are free to disagree deeply without trying to cancel or silence each other.
- The state does not pick a side in theology or ideology — only in protecting autonomy.
FAQ
This is new. It’s okay to have questions — in fact, questioning is kind of the point.
Why Autonomism?
We are here. None of us chose to be. We opened our eyes one day inside a universe already in motion — on a planet we didn’t design, among people we didn’t select, for a span of time we can’t extend. That is the human condition: no choice in arrival, no control over departure, and very little time in between. And yet within that brief window, we each have one sacred power — the ability to choose how we live, act, and treat others. Autonomism begins from that simple truth. If no one controls where or when they were born, then no one has the moral right to rule another’s life. Our duty — the only one we all share — is to protect every person’s limited, irreplaceable chance to live freely and meaningfully. That is autonomy: the recognition that each consciousness gets one moment on this stage, and that justice, law, and governance exist only to ensure those moments are not stolen, crushed, or coerced by others.
Is this a religious party?
No. Autonomism is explicitly not based on any religion, and it also doesn’t demand atheism or agnosticism. People of faith and people with no faith are both welcome — as long as they accept that the law can’t rest on “because my religion says so.”
Is this just another word for “anarchist”?
No. Anarchism rejects structured law and state authority. The Autonomist Party believes in firm law — but law limited to protecting autonomy and punishing those who violate it. We are not anti-law; we are anti-abuse-of-law.
Where do Autonomists sit on the left–right spectrum?
On some issues we look “right” (strong on crime, pro-life, cautious about government growth). On others we look “left” or “libertarian” (live-and-let-live on adult lifestyle, skeptical of corporate power, civil liberties focused). The point is not to fit a team — it’s to stay loyal to autonomy and accountability.
Is this really a political party or more of a social movement?
Right now, it’s both. The Autonomist Party can be a political party where law allows, but it is also a broader moral framework anyone can adopt: individuals, communities, even people already inside other parties who want a clearer compass.
Join the Autonomist Project
This is an early draft of something that could become very large. If you read this and thought “finally, this sounds like me” — you’re probably an Autonomist.