Tag: libertarian
Gary Chartier: An authentically leftist position, I suggest, is marked by opposition to subordination,exclusion, and deprivation.
Left libertarianism is authentically leftist because it seeks to challenge privilege, hierarchy, exclusion, deprivation, and domination–both ideologically and practically.
Roderick T. Long: The Case for Libertarian Anarchism
A ARGUMENTAÇÃO EM FAVOR DO ANARQUISMO LIBERTÁRIO
Suzanne La Follette: Political government offers privilege every facility for circumventing the popular will whenever it becomes inimical to the interests of privilege, as it is the business of political government to do.
Kevin Carson: History can’t be done a priori.
Rothbard didn’t exactly fit the “pot-smoking Republican” stereotype.
In 2005 Richman traveled to the Manlius, NY, home of the great critic of coercive psychiatry and the “therapeutic state,” Thomas Szasz.
Gary Chartier: Libertarians rightly reject statist redistribution as a variety of slavery. But they have every reason to embrace solidaristic, transactional, and rectificational redistribution.
Wally Conger: I can ask for no better guidebook to fighting for and living the stateless life.
Each of these movements, in its own way, offers some potential as a basis for common action with the left against the increasing authoritarianism police state, and against the corporate-state nexus that dominates the economy.
Long: Libertarians have not always been so friendly to business interests.
Long: Is it true that objective law can be provided only by a governmental monopoly?
There’s no reason whatever for libertarians to surrender the concept of social justice to the statist left.
What Kind of Commitment Is Libertarianism?
Among these various schools, nearly everyone agrees on the putative facts of American history; disagreements arise over frameworks of interpretation and over evaluation.
A new term is obviously required, and so I’ve come up with one. Maybe it will stick, maybe it won’t, but the phenomenon is real and to the extent that it is analyzed it has to be called something.
The problem with mainstream libertarianism is its almost total departure from its radical roots.
Libertarianism should recognize that exploitation deserves an appropriately, though not exclusively, political response.
Ross Kenyon makes the case that libertarians, while very interested in economic theory, need to pay closer attention to political economy, history, and institutional analysis to make sure that they are applying theory where it appropriate to do so.
