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 believe in converting present-day private productive property into the commons or public goods, while retaining respect for personal property.

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.

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

Members of the Libertarian Party have also supported the repeal of NAFTA, CAFTA, and similar trade agreements, as well as the United States ' exit from the United Nations, WTO, and NATO.

Hundreds of Libertarian candidates have been elected or appointed to public office, and thousands have run for office under the Libertarian banner.

Since the Libertarian Party's inception, individuals have been able to join the party as voting members by signing their agreement with the organization's membership pledge, which states, based on the Non-Aggression Principle, that the signer does not advocate the initiation of force to achieve political or social goals.

The Libertarian Party's platform states: " Government does not have the authority to define, license or restrict personal relationships.

According to the Libertarian Party's platform, " Sexual orientation, preference, gender, or gender identity should have no impact on the government's treatment of individuals, such as in current marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration or military service laws.

Many LGBT political candidates have run for office on the Libertarian Party ticket, and there have been numerous LGBT caucuses in the party, with the most active in recent years being the Outright Libertarians.

Many men and women with background in prostitution and activists for sex workers ' rights, such as Norma Jean Almodovar and Starchild, have run for office on the Libertarian Party ticket or are active members of the party.

The threshold requirements have no bearing on the two main political parties ( the Republican and Democrat Parties ) as they easily meet the requirements, but have come into play for minor parties such as the Green and Libertarian Parties.

There had been reports that officials from the Libertarian Party have tried to persuade Ventura to run for the presidency on a Libertarian ticket although the party chairman Mark Hinkle stated, " Jesse is more interested in 2016 than he is in 2012.

In addition, Republican and Libertarian Party chapters have complained of takeover by religious or police elements, in one case in Colorado leading to scandal when the charges led to police department shake-ups.

The Democratic, Libertarian, and Republican parties have ballot access by voter registrations.

Anarchists and some libertarian socialists reject the Marxist view that a transitional phase will be needed and accuse Marxism of being too authoritarian, though they have been much less critical of Libertarian varieties of Marxism than scientific communism, Leninism and Stalinism.

After the 2004 election, Cobb and Libertarian nominee Michael Badnarik sought a recount of the Ohio vote and announced that they would challenge the 2004 presidential voting results in Ohio, even though neither challenger was claiming to have won the election, and even though Cobb had not even been on the ballot in Ohio.

Libertarian socialists have more recently appropriated the term to refer to the non-violent strategy of achieving a libertarian socialist economy and polity by means of incrementally establishing and then networking institutions of direct participatory democracy to contest the existing power structures of state-capitalism.

Nathan consented to have her name placed into nomination for the Libertarian vice-presidential candidacy in the 1976 presidential election, though she did not actively campaign for the position.

Two third parties have Hill committees as well: The Libertarian National Campaign Committee ( LNCC ) for the Libertarian Party and the Green Senatorial Campaign Committee ( GSCC ) for the Green Party of the United States.

Following the 1980 federal elections, the Libertarian Party assumed the title of being the third largest party after the American Independent Party, which had previously been the third largest political party, continued to fracture.

Another debate was created by Mike Hihn's claim that the term libertarianism has been used by anarchists longer than by minarchists .< Ref > Mike Hihn, " The Dallas Accord, Minarchists, and why our members sign a pledge ", Washington State Libertarian Party, August 2009 .</ ref > A related internal discussion concerns the philosophical divide over whether the Party should aim to be mainstream and pragmatic, or whether it should focus on being consistent and principled.

It has been argued ( See Jacobson, " The England Libertarian Heritage ") that Collins was the unknown author of ten of " The Independent Whig " essays.

This is pessimistic incompatibilism, and has been used as an argument against Libertarian incompatibilism.

" After explaining why cultural conservatives could make a better argument for liberty to the middle classes, Rockwell predicted " in the new movement, libertarians who personify the present corruption will sink to their natural level, as will the Libertarian Party, which has been their diabolic pulpit.

The Christian Credit Party was a short-lived Canadian political party founded in 1982 by perennial candidate and social credit activist, John C. Turmel who has, at various times, been involved in the Social Credit Party of Canada, the Green Party of Canada, and the Libertarian Party of Canada.

Guevara is currently the president of the Libertarian Movement Party and has been its candidate for president of Costa Rica in 2002, 2006, and 2010.

Boneham states that he has been a Libertarian for more than 20 years, but did not become active in the party until 2012.

Since the early 1980s, the Permanent Fund has paid annual dividends to Alaska residents, under a program in which credit has been variously given to, or taken by, Hammond, Malone, Libertarian state representative Dick Randolph and numerous other Alaskan politicians of the day.

Although its left-wing, Libertarian socialist leaning editorial line has remained broadly unchanged-it is non-party political and committed to radical change within and between rich and poor countries-the approach has been modified over the years.

All four criteria lower the number of migrants the project must rally in order to obtain " success "-a vital requirement, as freedom projects have been most attractive to organizations with extreme political goals and small memberships, e. g., the Libertarian Party and Christian dominionists.

A lawyer and real estate agent, he has been the leader of the Ontario Libertarian Party since 1996.

Although he had been a supporter of the New Democratic Party in earlier years, he entered politics as the Libertarian Party of Canada's candidate in the 1982 by-election in the riding of Leeds – Grenville.

Since then there have been two groups both calling themselves the Libertarian Alliance and using the same logo and using the phrase " Let a Thousand Libertarian Alliances Bloom !".

" Childs responded with an essay entitled " Big Business and the Rise of American Statism .” He wrote that: “ To a large degree it has been and remains big businessmen who are the fountainheads of American statism .” Childs edited the magazine Libertarian Review from 1977 until it folded in 1981.