Rather. Hackers political values, as stated in the jargon file, have politics: "Formerly vaguely liberal-moderate, more recently moderate-to-neoconservative (h

Rather. Hackers political values, as stated in the jargon file, have politics: "Formerly vaguely liberal-moderate, more recently moderate-to-neoconservative (hackers too were affected by the collapse of socialism). There is a strong libertarian contingent which rejects conventional left-right politics entirely. The only safe generalization is that hackers tend to be rather anti-authoritarian; thus, both paleoconservatism and ‘hard’ leftism are rare. Hackers are far more likely than most non-hackers to either (a) be aggressively apolitical or (b) entertain peculiar or idiosyncratic political ideas and actually try to live by them day-to-day." Mapping this to any political ideology would be difficult.