Liberal Manifesto (2025, Pedro Telleria

"Human dignity begins when no one can force you to live as someone else commands." — Liberal Manifesto (2025, Pedro Tellería)

1. Introduction

I declare myself a liberal thinker, in the classical and philosophical sense.
I place myself outside the traditional left-right axis, nationalism, or organized religiosity.
I acknowledge that my position is a minority one in today’s political context, but I assume it with conviction and clarity.

2. Fundamental Principles

Individual liberty: Every human being has the right to pursue their own life project freely, limited only by respect for the liberty of others.
Private property: An extension of the individual, the material basis of personal freedom. It includes the body, time, material goods, capital goods, and intellectual property.
Voluntary contracts: Free agreements between individuals must be respected and protected.
Non-aggression principle: Rejection of any physical or economic coercion used to alter someone’s will.
Subsidiarity: What an individual can do, the government should not. What a family, a company, or an association can do, the bureaucrat should not invade.

3. Role of the State

Minimal state: Its existence is justified only for essential functions: justice, internal and external security, essential public works, protection of the weak.
Limitation of public spending: It should never exceed 10% of GDP.
Areas excluded from state intervention: Based on subsidiarity, I exclude significant state involvement in Education, Healthcare, Pensions, Culture, Media, R&D, Sports, Transport, Energy.
Critique of the current model: The Spanish State, in all its layers, acts as an enemy of personal liberty, coercing voluntary cooperation between individuals.

4. Economy and Market

Defense of the market economy: Free competition, private property, respect for contracts, zero inflation (0%).
Science and Technology: Essential tools for human progress. Knowledge and technical development are liberating forces.

5. Critique of Current Collectivism

Hypertrophic state: It directly controls over 45% of GDP, regulates another 20–30%, and invades personal and social life.
Ideological assault: Education and media as tools of cultural and thought control. Manipulated language. Suppression of critical thinking.
Excessive state burden: Abusive and opaque taxation, high public debt, inefficient services.
Victimhood and identity culture: Society fragmented into grievance groups. Moral supremacy without responsibility.

6. Personal Values and Virtues

7. Political Declaration

In coherence with this thinking:

I do not collaborate with political or social structures that violate these principles.
I will exercise intellectual criticism and free association.
I will only support initiatives that respect individual liberty, private property, and voluntary contract.

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