left-libertarianism
English
Noun
left-libertarianism (uncountable)
- 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 The Guardian:
- This is in line with what we know of Carpenter’s political attitudes, which on balance veer towards a kind of post-60s left-libertarianism.
Further reading
left-libertarianism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia