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Libertarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Libertarianism is often viewed as a right-wing philosophy, especially by non-libertarians in the United States and Canada, where libertarians tend to have more in common with traditional conservatives than liberals, especially with regards to economic and gun control policies. Libertarianism favors freedom and opposes government action to promote either equality or order, in the understanding that order is emergent from a state of justice. Libertarian perspectives on animal rights: A small number of libertarians grant basic rights to animals (they count as individuals and therefore have the right not to be subjected to coercion), while others see animals as property, and think their owners are free to treat them as they wish. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Libertarianism   (8459 words)

Left-libertarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Historically, the term libertarianism was first coined by leftist followers of Mikhail Bakunin to describe their own, anti-statist version of socialism, as contrasted with the state socialism propounded by Karl Marx. It is "Left" insofar as it incorporates New Left critiques of imperialism, of state and corporate power, and of intellectual property. It is "Left" in that it advocates ownership in common of natural resources and compensation for the enclosure of those resources, within a framework of libertarian self-ownership theory. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Left-libertarianism   (1214 words)

Jan Narveson - Libertarianism: A Philosophical Introduction The "left" libertarian holds that the right of private property for individuals is either nonexistent or very much less than absolute, and that society needs to bring about a measure of equality in the distribution of certain things, usually natural resources, perhaps providing, to that end, a social minimum. Against the Left, libertarians famously object not only to socialism, but also to the welfare state, and more generally to a great deal of the kind of political initiative that is familiar to all who live in contemporary "first world" states. All of these objections to both left and right stem from the same source: opposition to imposing by force on individuals except, alone, for punishment of interpersonal imposition of harm. www.againstpolitics.com /libertarianism   (11366 words)

Philosophy, et cetera: Left-Libertarianism Most libertarians are right-libertarians: they hold the unprincipled view that natural resources may be appropriated by some so as to leave none left over for others. Libertarianism could be understood, in the most basic interpretation, as the view that property rights are of fundamental value. If the anarchist believes that no-one should "rule" than does that not also mean that the anarchist might concede that no-one should govern property, thereby diluting the property-focused argument of both law and libertarianism. pixnaps.blogspot.com /2005/06/left-libertarianism.html   (2607 words)

http://www.qando.net/ - Thoughts on Left libertarianism If libertarianism, as it is understood today, is based in the individual and his/her rights, it would seem to me that the further you go to the left, the farther you move away from that base premise. Those on the left that claim libertarianism are actually trying to claim libertinism (for whichever particular vice they happen to be fond of at the moment.) There is a real divide between hawk and dove libertarians, but anything else is sophistry. And that is why "left libertarian", by percieving the left as being pro-personal freedoms and wanting to be diametrically opposed to the "war mongering", fundamentalist christian, moral police state side of issues they percieve to be on the right, is a valid label to that way of looking at things. www.qando.net /details.aspx?Entry=2203   (8974 words)

The Political Compass - Why Libertarianism is not Right Wing In this interpretation of the pristine sense, libertarianism was clearly at the extreme left-wing.[1] This sense lasted up to as late as 1848, with Frederic Bastiat sitting on the left in the national assembly. One problem would be that any existing left and right groups with mirrored policies of state intervention in personal and property matters (say, 40/60 and 60/40) would, confusingly, find themselves at the same point on the right-wing of the political line. Brittan, S. Left or Right: the Bogus Dilemma www.la-articles.org.uk /pc.htm   (3695 words)

out of step: Defining Left Libertarianism Incidentally, though, a fact that both left and right should be aware of: the term "libertarian" was originally just a euphamism for anarchist and therefore implied socialism of one kind or another. This is because the right has hijacked the libertarian rhetoric of self-reliance, individualism, and free markets(and was enabled to do so by the statist turn the left took at the turn of the century). In this refined understanding of voluntary vs. coercive the Left Libertarian also realizes that in a truly free market a plurality of economic institutions could thrive, provided they did so peacefully, be they mutual banks, worker co-ops, syndicates, or collectives. wconger.blogspot.com /2005/08/defining-left-libertarianism.html   (965 words)

http://www.neolibertarian.net/ - Left Libertarianism The left moved in an authoritarian direction one step at a time, and the right followed three paces behind—ten years, twenty years—in adopting the prior innovations of the left and demanding that they be kept, in pristine form, as societal dogma. I finally chose to accept the "left libertarian" label only recently, based primarily on my perception that the status quo created by the left over the last 70 years and now defended with vigor by the right is at the point of crumbling. The period of nominal libertarian alignment with the right was a direct result of the victory of the left in the 18th and 19th centuries. www.neolibertarian.net /details.aspx?Entry=160   (1016 words)

Michael Otsuka - Libertarianism without Inequality - Reviewed by Ian Carter , University of Pavia - Philosophical Reviews - University of Notre Dame In this important contribution to rights theory, the deontology of punishment, and the problem of political obligation, Michael Otsuka argues against the belief, prevalent on both the left and the right of the political spectrum, that the fundamental principles of libertarianism conflict with the ideal of economic equality. This allows him to defend “libertarianism without inequality” – a radical and provocative normative construction that is both more egalitarian and more libertarian than mainstream (left-of-centre) liberal egalitarianism. There are of course still important voluntarist elements in Otsuka’s proposal – in particular, his insistence on the possibility of illiberal societies existing within the jurisdiction of the inter-political governing body, and the fact that these societies may stake territorial claims consistently with the principles of justice. ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=1418   (2131 words)

SSRN-Left Libertarianism: A Review Essay by Barbara Fried It argues as well that the robust interpretation of the Lockean proviso that left libertarians have deployed to distance themselves from the right assumes a view of fairness that threatens to collapse left libertarianism into more conventional strains of egalitarianism on the left. The publication in 2000 of Peter Vallentyne and Hillel Steiner's elegant two-volume collection of essays on Left-Libertarianism formally marks the emergence over the past two decades of a theory of distributive justice that seeks to harness the premises of the libertarian right to the political agenda of the egalitarian left. As a result, left libertarians, like their counterparts on the right, are pulling some very thick conclusions out of some very thin premises, a process that leaves them the latitude to find in the principle of "self-ownership" pretty much whatever they are looking for. papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=441000   (433 words)

Left libertarianism Left Libertarian isn't an oxymoron, it's just that that their vision for society is different than right wing libertarians'. Libertarians of both the right and left varieties, and anarchists too, I suppose, believe that society must progress organically (i.e. I see the left and right designations as saying a lot about whether you are in favour of equality or not. ilx.wh3rd.net /thread.php?msgid=4054702   (6449 words)

Reason: John Locke Lite: The strange philosophy of a “left libertarian” The central goal of these “left libertarians” is to show that one can maintain a core commitment to what John Locke termed “property in one’s person”—and thus can call oneself a libertarian—and yet support a state that is empowered to redistribute property on an ongoing basis in accordance with some formula of fairness or justice. Otsuka, like the other “left libertarians,” fails to distinguish between wealth and value, which are economic concepts, and property, which is a legal concept. His approach reads like a parody of libertarianism, according to which people might give their “consent” to live in radically unequal, feudal, slavish conditions, meaning that libertarianism (as Otsuka understands it) would lead to truly disturbing forms of oppression. www.reason.com /0501/cr.tp.john.shtml   (1486 words)

The Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates: Risse on Left Libertarianism In light of their underlying commitments, a defender of either of the views that left-libertarianism combines would actually have to reject the other....This paper, however, should not be understood in support of right-libertarianism: rather, it should be understood as capturing a general resistance to libertarian thought." The Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates: Risse on Left Libertarianism However...[t]he set of reasons that support egalitarian ownership of natural resources stand in a deep tension with the set of reasons that would prompt one to endorse a right to self-ownership. webapp.utexas.edu /blogs/archives/bleiter/000788.html   (229 words)

LewRockwell.com Blog: Religion, Atheists/Agnostics, and Left-Libertarianism But in my view, reason and rationality is the standard that must be used to decide the question of which is more compatible with libertarianism. Accepting that religion is not a necessary in order to lead a good and moral life is to also accept that atheists/agnostics can be grounded in reason, and that reason plays a role in the quality of human life and liberty. In regards to religion, there are 3 kinds of libertarians that we distinctly notice: Religionists, Atheists/Agnostics, and the Christianity-Haters. blog.lewrockwell.com /lewrw/archives/002750.html   (550 words)

Critiques Of Libertarianism Libertarians are generally unabashedly in favor of privatization and deregulation, with only minor limits in the case of minarchists. Libertarians are by no means unified in their positions, and some of their strongest criticisms are aimed at each other. Libertarians tend to consider government a drain on the economy, when in actuality it is an active player in creating a more vigorous economy. world.std.com /~mhuben/libindex.html   (775 words)

Philosophy, et cetera: Left-libertarianism again. I don't think any kind of libertarianism (not even the left-kind) can account for all the duties which we as moral agents have. Still, I think your account is more plausible than the Nozickian/Lockean libertarianism. Anyway my view is that, in the sorts of issues with which libertarians concern themselves, weight gets thrown behind more than one sort of claim, and that the correct decisions, policies and political institutions can be identified by watching the resultant interplay and conflict among those claims. pixnaps.blogspot.com /2005/07/left-libertarianism-again.html   (2892 words)

Hit and Run Comment by: Rikurzhen at January 20, 2005 04:54 PM Since "left libertarianism" is little more than window dressing for the redistribution that is anathema to real libertarianism, I'm not too worried, R. Comment by: R C Dean at January 20, 2005 04:58 PM I suppose I'll call myself a Capitalist, then. Comment by: Jason Ligon at January 20, 2005 05:58 PM It seems odd to talk about new-fangled "left libertarianism" when in fact the libertarian socialist movement is much older than America's version with its emphasis on markets and private property and its reverence towards classical liberal ideals. Aside from the occasional use of "right libertarian" to mean "classically liberal minarchist" versus "left libertarian" as "socialist who likes porn", it's a rather meaningless distinction, as it comes down to the variance in pet issues among people who largely agree on basic premises. www.reason.com /hitandrun/2005/01/new_at_reason_376.shtml   (2183 words)

Decnavda's Dialectic But I certainly want to see as much of the libertarian agenda implemented as is practicable, this is why I consider myself a lefty-libertarian). sufficiently?) fixes the inter-generational inequities of right-libertarianism, brilliantly taxes the one thing that should be taxed most (ground rents), and of all the forms of libertarianism just seems the most workable. Common rights of access to land follows from that we all should own that which we produce, so since nobody produces land (in the economic sense) nobody should permanently "own" it, and those who do claim exclusive ownership owe compensation to those thereby dispossessed. decnavda.blogspot.com /2005/05/left-libertarianism.html   (457 words)

Dan Lynch Online :: View topic - The Left Wing of Libertarianism Under this definition, the left wing of libertarianism would be minarchism, though I suppose a minarchist would probably disagree. Has nothing to do with the orthogonalagous (neologism?) qualities you were talking about, in fact this lot seems distinctly dodgy; but it's about nominal "left libertarianism", so... Under this regime, the Liberal Party, the New Democratic Party, and the US Democratic Party are on the left, while the Conservative Party and the US Republican Party are on the right. www.dglynch.com /board/viewtopic.php?t=633   (880 words)

History News Network But if we leave aside the influence of anti-Soviet sentiment and simply consider in what direction a radical, contextual-analysis-oriented, secular, individualist, anti-traditionalist, anti-sacrificial libertarian ethic is most naturally developed – it’s left-libertarianism, man. This year I want to write about her legacy for left-libertarians in particular. Last year, for her centenary, I wrote about Rand’s legacy for libertarians generally. hnn.us /blogs/entries/21257.html   (839 words)

SSRN-Can there be 'Libertarianism without Inequality'? Some Worries About the Coherence of Left-Libertarianism by Mathias Risse The core of the problem lies in the attempt to combine two ideas that resist such combination, and thus raises doubts about the very possibility of a credible left-libertarianism. This paper, however, should not be understood in support of right-libertarianism: rather, it should be understood as capturing a general resistance to libertarian thought. Risse, Mathias, "Can there be 'Libertarianism without Inequality'? papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=478442   (409 words)

Critiques Of Libertarianism: Left-Libertarian and Anarchist Criticism. While most will not accept the entire positions of left-libertarians or anarchists, they do make a number of points about libertarianism and capitalism which are both interesting and telling. Description (and criticism) of the differences between left libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism (right libertarianism.) Economist Roger McCain's well-written introduction to libertarian socialism, including an excellent section "WHY NOT LIBERTARIAN CAPITALISM?" An unusual strong point is presentation of some pragmatic economic advantages of Libertarian Socialism. world.std.com /~mhuben/leftlib.html   (439 words)

Illustration of why Libertarianism is so laughable - Page 3 - IIDB Illustration of why Libertarianism is so laughable - Page 3 - IIDB I'm glad I saw the OP as just by coincidence I have been reading some Libertarian tracts. I came across this little site and wondered at the supreme convolutions of intelligence displayed in this guy's arguments; www.iidb.org /vbb/showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=91784   (85 words)

Political spectrum - InformationBlast This puts left-wingers in the top left quadrant, libertarians in the top right, right-wingers in the bottom right, and authoritarians (whom Nolan originally named populists) in the bottom left. The Nolan Chart has been embraced by libertarian capitalists, who often use it to give a positive connotation to their own policies and a negative connotation to the policies adopted by their opponents. This chart shows what he considers as "economic freedom" (issues like taxation, free trade and free enterprise) on the x axis and what he considers as "personal freedom" (issues like drug legalization, abortion and the draft) on the y axis. www.informationblast.com /Political_spectrum.html   (85 words)

Libertarian Conference Ends in Chaos The stated purposes of the conference were to radicalize the right-wing libertarians, to convince the left-wing activists there that the Rothbardian libertarians were on their side, and to provide anarcho-libertarian analyses of recent historical events. Clark went on to say that only the left-wing people confront the state, and while the Leftists are heroically risking life and limb fighting the state the right-wing libertarians are worried about the theoretical purity of those protesting oppression. The left-wing complains that the rightists are not really radicals: they don’t seem to regard the state as the enemy and, in fact, are more concerned with fighting alien ideologies than with abolishing the state. royhalliday.home.mindspring.com /confer.htm   (85 words)

Deltoid » The Libertarian Purity Test The graph to the right shows that the higher your Left/Right score is, the higher your libertarian score is. The last graph plots the actual Libertarian purity test scores on the political compass. I would have scored higher if there had been some questions designed more to capture left-wing libertarian impulses, though (why no questions about abortion rights, for instance?). I think that “vouchers” and government “sub-contracting” (which the quiz was right to clarify at the beginning with respect to “privatization”), are worse than the status quo. timlambert.org /2004/03/libertarianpurity   (85 words)

Libertarianism - Criticisms of left-libertarianism have come from both the right and left alike. Libertarian perspectives on animal rights: A small number of libertarians grant basic rights to animals (they count as individuals and therefore have the right not to be subjected to coercion), while others see animals as property, and think their owners are free to treat them as they wish. Libertarians mindful of such criticisms claim that personal responsibility, private charity, and the voluntary exchange of goods and ideas are all consistent manifestations of an individualistic approach to liberty, and provide both a more effective and more ethical way to prosperity and peaceful coexistence. psychcentral.com /psypsych/Libertarianism   (7751 words)

Deltoid » The Political Compass On the left side of the graph most everyone lies close to the line, but on the right side there are people in the top right quadrant (”conservatives&;) and in the bottom right quadrant (”libertarians”) and the line isn’t really close to either group. If libertarians are much less common in the general population then the conventional left/right axis will fit much better there. The test also rated me as more libertarian than David Friedman, which seems rather wrong to me. Nor are the results below representative of all bloggers, since it is a self selected sample. timlambert.org /2003/11/compass   (7751 words)

GEB:Political Philosophy Most people who call themselves anarchists consider themselves to be of the left Left-wing anarchists do not like the free-market approach to these problems and are suspicious of private property and capitalism. A listing of libertarian websites and resources provided by the Libertarians at the University of Illinois. www.gordonbanks.com /gordon/interests/politics.html   (7751 words)

Daily Pundit Archives The importance of proto-anarchists such as Bakunin remains in the non-Marxist left, and certainly the potential for alliances with the left remains in libertarianism -- against the drug war, for instance, and on issues of personal privacy and state police powers. That there is now a modern philosophy of libertarianism which uses the non-coercion principle, of which Bill originally spoke in the earlier thread, doesn't mean the other uses of the word automatically become invalid. Here's their combative defense of the term libertarian ; they think it was stolen from them, and they cite chapter and verse to prove it. www.dailypundit.com /archives/006359.php   (7751 words)

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