Category: Libertarian socialists

Libertarian socialists generally place their hopes in decentralized means of direct democracy such as libertarian municipalism, citizens ' assemblies, trade unions and workers ' councils.

Libertarian socialists generally place their hopes in decentralized means of direct democracy such as libertarian municipalism, citizens ' assemblies, trade unions, and workers ' councils.

Libertarian socialists are strongly critical of coercive institutions, which often leads them to reject the legitimacy of the state in favor of anarchism.

Libertarian socialists played a major role in the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917.

Libertarian socialists played a dominant role in the Mexican Revolution of 1911.

Libertarian socialists are anti-capitalist, and can thus be distinguished from right-wing libertarians.

Libertarian socialists believe if freedom is valued, then society must work towards a system in which individuals have the power to decide economic issues along with political issues.

Libertarian socialists seek to replace unjustified authority with direct democracy, voluntary federation, and popular autonomy in all aspects of life, including physical communities and economic enterprises.

Libertarian socialists generally regard concentrations of power as sources of oppression that must be continually challenged and justified.

Libertarian socialists typically oppose rigid and stratified structures of authority, be they political, economic, or social.

Libertarian socialists have been strong advocates and activists of civil liberties that provide an individual specific rights such as the freedom in issues of love and sex ( free love ) ( see Anarchism and issues related to love and sex ) and of thought and conscience ( freethought ).

Left-libertarians, Libertarian socialists and left-wing anarchists believe in a decentralized economy run by trade unions, workers ' councils, cooperatives, municipalities and communes, and oppose both government and private control of the economy, preferring local control, in which a nation of decentralized regions are united in a confederation.

Preceding the Bolshevik-led revolution in Russia, many socialists, including reformist currents, orthodox Marxist currents such as council communism and the Mensheviks, and Anarchism / Libertarian socialism criticised the use of the state, through centralized planning and state-ownership, as a means to establishing socialism.

Libertarian socialists oppose all coercive forms of social organisation, promote free association in place of government, and oppose the coercive social relations of capitalism, such as wage labor.

Category: Libertarian socialists

Libertarian socialists argue for a total abolition of the state, with most anarchists ( including proponents of left anarchism, social anarchism and anarchist communism ) opposing capitalism on the grounds that it entails social domination ( through inequalities of wealth ), involuntary relations and coercive hierarchy ( through the perceived pressure on individuals to engage in wage labour ).

Libertarian socialists and left-anarchists often promote a form of market socialism in which enterprises are owned and managed cooperatively by the workers so that the profits directly remunerate the employee-owners.

Category: Libertarian socialists

Category: Libertarian socialists

Category: Libertarian socialists

Libertarian socialists and anarchists believe there is no need for a state in a socialist system because there would be no class to suppress and no need for an institution based on coercion, and thus regard the state being a remnant of capitalism.

Category: Libertarian socialists

Category: Libertarian socialists

The U. S. Libertarian Party political platform ( 2012 ) states: " Recognizing that abortion is a sensitive issue and that people can hold good-faith views on all sides, we believe that government should be kept out of the matter, leaving the question to each person for their conscientious consideration.

Harry Browne, the Libertarian Party candidate for President for 1996 and 2000, rejected the terms pro-life and pro-choice and stated about abortion: " Whatever we believe abortion is, we know one thing: government doesn't work, and it is as incapable of eliminating abortions as it is of eliminating poverty or drugs.

Both Nader and Camejo said the main reason they ran in the 2004 election was because there were no other national candidates demanding an immediate withdrawal of American troops from what they believe is an immoral and unconstitutionally pursued War in Iraq ( though Green David Cobb, Libertarian Michael Badnarik, Constitution Party candidate Michael Peroutka, Socialist Party USA candidate Walt Brown and Socialist Workers Party candidate Róger Calero also opposed the war to varying degrees.

* Libertarian: As it is possible for a socially responsible person to sincerely believe that the triple bottom line is harmful to society, the libertarian view is that it would be arrogant to force them to support a mechanism for the improvement of society that may, or may not, be the best available.

The national platform of the Libertarian Party states under the " Abortion " section: " Recognizing that abortion is a sensitive issue and that people can hold good-faith views on all sides, we believe that government should be kept out of the matter, leaving the question to each person for their conscientious consideration.

Libertarian socialism ( sometimes called social anarchism, and sometimes left libertarianism ) is a group of political philosophies that promote a non-hierarchical, non-bureaucratic, stateless society without private property in the means of production.

Libertarian socialism ( sometimes called social anarchism, and sometimes left libertarianism ) is a group of political philosophies that promote a non-hierarchical, non-bureaucratic society without private property in the means of production.

Libertarian socialism tends to deny the legitimacy of most forms of economically significant private property, viewing capitalist property relations as forms of domination that are antagonistic to individual freedom.

Libertarian socialism is a non-hierarchical, non-bureaucratic, stateless society without private property in the means of production.

Libertarian opponents of taxation claim that governmental protection, such as police and defense forces might be replaced by market alternatives such as private defense agencies, arbitration agencies or voluntary contributions.

A private organization, the Libertarian Press, revived the practice in 1997

Van Os served as general counsel for the Texas AFL-CIO from 1983 to 1989 and was named Civil Libertarian of the Year, Central Texas ACLU, 1990 and was in-house District Counsel for the Communications Workers of America in Austin from 1981 through 1984 ; he continued serving as District Counsel for CWA after co-founding a private law firm in 1984, and remains CWA's District Counsel for its five-state District 6.

Libertarian socialists, sometimes known as left-anarchists, hold that, as Proudhon said, " Property is theft " — that is, in reference to the ownership of productive resources, property is not the right to use, but the right to keep others from using.

* Libertarian socialism generally accepts property rights, but with a short abandonment period.

Libertarian thinker Tibor Machan defends negative liberty as " required for moral choice and, thus, for human flourishing ," claiming that it " is secured when the rights of individual members of a human community to life, to voluntary action ( or to liberty of conduct ), and to property are universally respected, observed, and defended.

A practicing intellectual property attorney and former adjunct professor of law at South Texas College of Law, where he taught computer law, Kinsella is actively involved with libertarian legal and political theory, and is an adjunct scholar of the Mises Institute as well as the former Book Review Editor for the Institute's Journal of Libertarian Studies.

* Libertarian perspectives on intellectual property