left-libertarianism

English

Noun

left-libertarianism (uncountable)

1. A type of libertarianism that stresses both individual freedom and social equality, and advocates shared ownership of natural resources.

   Synonym: social libertarianism

   Coordinate term: right-libertarianism

   • 2012, Hillel Steier, quoting Peter Vallentyne, “Left Libertarianism”, in Gerald F. Gaus, Fred D'Agostino, editors, The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 412:

     Unlike most versions of egalitarianism, left-libertarianism endorses full self-ownership, and thus places specific limits on what others may do to one's person without one's permission. Unlike the more familiar right-libertarianism (which also endorses full self-ownership), it holds that natural resources […] may be privately appropriated only with the permission of, or with a significant payment to, the members of society.

   • 2017 January 9, John Patterson, “They Live: John Carpenter's action flick needs to be saved from neo-Nazis”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     This is in line with what we know of [John] Carpenter’s political attitudes, which on balance veer towards a kind of post-60s left-libertarianism.

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Related terms

• left-libertarian

Further reading

• left-libertarianism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia