Charles Johnson: Left-libertarians are sometimes known to stick on distinctions and the definitions of words.

Corporate capitalism is organized around the imperatives, not of maximizing efficiency, but of maximizing the extraction of rents. When maximum extraction of rents requires artificial imposition of inefficiency, the capitalists’ state is ready and willing.

David Gordon offers another essay critical of left libertarianism from the Bleeding Heart Libertarian Symposium.

Gary Chartier responds: Professors Horwitz and Shapiro both raise helpful, thoughtful questions about the persistence of hierarchy in a stateless society.

Daniel Shapiro offers another essay critical of left libertarianism from the Bleeding Heart Libertarian Symposium.

Steve Horwitz offers another essay critical of left libertarianism from the Bleeding Heart Libertarian Symposium.

John Holbo offers the first of three essays critical of left libertarianism from the Bleeding Heart Libertarian Symposium.

Roderick T. Long: Left-libertarians differ from the (current) libertarian mainstream both in terms of what outcomes they regard as desirable, and in terms of what outcomes they think a freed market is likely to produce.

Gary Chartier: Left-libertarianism in the relevant sense is a position that is simultaneously leftist and libertarian.

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