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{{Short description|Political philosophy}}{{about|the type of libertarianism stressing both individual freedom and social equality|the socialist anti-authoritarian, anti-statist and libertarian philosophy|Libertarian socialism}}{{libertarianism sidebar}}Left-libertarianism,Bookchin, Murray; Biehl, Janet (1997). The Murray Bookchin Reader. New York: Cassell. p. 170.{{Sfnm|1a1=Carlson|1y=2012|1p=1006|2a1=Goodway|2y=2006|2p=4|3a1=Marshall|3y=2008|3p=641}} also known as left-wing libertarianism,JOURNAL,weblink Left-wing libertarianism: equality based on self-ownership, Spitz, Jean-Fabien, Raisons Politiques, March 2006, 23, 3, 28 November 2019, 23 March 2019,weblink live, is a political philosophy and type of libertarianism that stresses both individual freedom and social equality. Left-libertarianism represents several related yet distinct approaches to political and social theory. Its classical usage refers to anti-authoritarian varieties of left-wing politics such as anarchism, especially social anarchism,{{Sfn|Long|2012|p=227}} communalism, and libertarian Marxism, collectively termed libertarian socialism. A portion of the left wing of the green movement, including adherents of Murray Bookchin's social ecology, are also generally considered left-libertarian.In the United States, left-libertarianism represents the left wing of the libertarian movement,{{Sfn|Long|2012|p=227}} including the political positions associated with academic philosophers Hillel Steiner, Philippe Van Parijs, and Peter Vallentyne that combine self-ownership with an egalitarian approach to natural resources.{{Sfnm|1a1=Long|1y=2012|1p=227|2a1=Kymlicka|2y=2005|2p=516}} Although libertarianism in the United States has become associated with classical liberalism and minarchism, with right-libertarianism being more known than left-libertarianism,{{Sfn|Carlson|2012|p=1009}} political usage of the term until then was associated exclusively with anti-capitalism, libertarian socialism, and social anarchism; in most parts of the world, such an association still predominates.{{Sfn|Long|2012|p=227}}Bookchin, Murray; Biehl, Janet (1997). The Murray Bookchin Reader. London: Cassell. p. 170. {{ISBN|0304338737}}.Left-libertarians are skeptical of, or fully against, private ownership of natural resources, arguing, in contrast to right-libertarians, that neither claiming nor mixing one's labor with natural resources is enough to generate full private property rights, and they maintain that natural resources should be held in an egalitarian manner, either unowned or owned collectively.Carlson, Jennifer D. (2012). "Libertarianism". In Miller, Wilbur R. The social history of crime and punishment in America. London: Sage Publications. p. 1007. {{ISBN|1412988764}}. "Left-libertarians disagree with right-libertarians with respect to property rights, arguing instead that individuals have no inherent right to natural resources. Namely, these resources must be treated as collective property that is made available on an egalitarian basis". Those left-libertarians who are more lenient towards private property support different property norms and theories, such as usufructWEB, Carson, Kevin, An Introduction to Left-Libertarianism,weblink 2023-01-01, Center for a Stateless Society, en-US, 2019-09-03,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20190903175118weblink">weblink live, or under the condition that recompense is offered to the local or even global community, such as the Steiner–Vallentyne school.ENCYCLOPEDIA, Libertarianism, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA,weblink 5 March 2010, Vallentyne, Peter, March 2009, Spring 2009, Libertarianism is committed to full self-ownership. A distinction can be made, however, between right-libertarianism and left-libertarianism, depending on the stance taken on how natural resources can be owned., Zalta, Edward N., 6 July 2019,weblink live, ENCYCLOPEDIA, Narveson, Jan, Trenchard, David, Left Libertarianism, Jan Narveson, Ronald, Hamowy, Ronald Hamowy, The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism,weblink 2008, SAGE Publications, Sage; Cato Institute, Thousand Oaks, CA, 10.4135/9781412965811.n174, 978-1412965804, 750831024, 2008009151, 288–289, Left libertarians regard each of us as full self-owners. However, they differ from what we generally understand by the term libertarian in denying the right to private property. We own ourselves, but we do not own nature, at least not as individuals. Left libertarians embrace the view that all natural resources, land, oil, gold, and so on should be held collectively. To the extent that individuals make use of these commonly owned goods, they must do so only with the permission of society, a permission granted only under the proviso that a certain payment for their use be made to society at large., 2016-03-18, 2023-01-09,weblink live, Other currents of thought identified with left-libertarianism include adherents of Henry George's land tax ideas and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's mutualism, as well as more recent forms of left-wing market anarchism (or market-oriented left-libertarianism).

Terminology

{{see also|Definition of anarchism and libertarianism}}Libertarianism is a philosophy that advocates for freedom, whether political, economical or metaphysical.{{Sfn|Long|2021|p=30}} The political definition of the term "libertarian" (from the ) was coined by the French anarchist communist Joseph Déjacque in 1857, whereafter libertarianism became synonymous with anarchism.{{Sfnm|1a1=Long|1y=2021|1p=30|2a1=Marshall|2y=2008|2p=641}} The term was widely used by anarchists until the 1970s, when libertarianism first started to be associated with a radical free market philosophy, particularly in the United States.{{Sfnm|1a1=Long|1y=2021|1p=30|2a1=Marshall|2y=2008|2pp=641-642}}The oldest, traditional, definition of "left-libertarianism" used it synonymously with social anarchism.{{Sfnm|1a1=Goodway|1y=2006|1pp=1-4|2a1=Long|2y=2012|2p=227}} Seeking to distinguish themselves from the new generation of free-market libertarians, social anarchists began referring to themselves as "left-libertarians",{{Sfnm|1a1=Goodway|1y=2006|1p=4|2a1=Long|2y=2017|2p=308n104|3a1=Long|3y=2021|3p=30}} while the new adoptees of the term became known as "right-libertarians".{{Sfnm|1a1=Goodway|1y=2006|1p=4|2a1=Long|2y=2021|2p=30}}At the same time as social anarchists began using the term to distinguish themselves from free-market libertarians, some of the advocates of free market economics that were associated with the New Left, including Roy Childs and Samuel Konkin, also began referring to themselves as "left-libertarians" in order to highlight themselves as the left-wing of the new free-market libertarian movement.{{Sfn|Long|2021|p=30}} As anti-capitalist advocates of free-market economics, they used the term "left-libertarian" in order to distinguish themselves from the right-wing advocates of libertarian capitalism.{{Sfn|Long|2017|p=308n104}}By the turn of the 21st century, some analytic philosophers had also adopted the label of "left-libertarianism".{{Sfn|Long|2021|p=30}} This contemporary model of left-libertarianism, associated mainly with Peter Vallentyne and Hillel Steiner,{{Sfnm|1a1=Kymlicka|1y=2005|1pp=516-517|2a1=Long|2y=2012|2p=227}} distinguishes itself from right-libertarianism in its advocacy of the social ownership and equitable distribution of natural resources, while also upholding the libertarian principle of self-ownership.{{Sfnm|1a1=Kymlicka|1y=2005|1p=516|2a1=Long|2y=2012|2p=227|3a1=Long|3y=2021|3p=30}}

Philosophy

While all libertarians begin with a conception of personal autonomy from which they argue in favor of civil liberties and a reduction or elimination of the state, left-libertarianism encompasses those libertarian beliefs that claim the Earth's natural resources belong to everyone in an egalitarian manner, either unowned or owned collectively.{{Sfn|Long|2012|p=227}}Contemporary left-libertarians such as Hillel Steiner, Peter Vallentyne, Philippe Van Parijs, Michael Otsuka, and David Ellerman believe the appropriation of land must leave "enough and as good" for others or be taxed by society to compensate for the exclusionary effects of private property.{{Sfn|Kymlicka|2005|p=516}}

State

There are a number of different left-libertarian positions on the state, which can range from advocating for the complete abolition of the state, to advocating for a more decentralized and limited government with social ownership of the economy.Marshall, Peter (2009) [1991]. (Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism) (POLS ed.). Oakland, California: PM Press. p. 641. "Left libertarianism can therefore range from the decentralist who wishes to limit and devolve State power, to the syndicalist who wants to abolish it altogether. It can even encompass the Fabians and the social democrats who wish to socialize the economy but who still see a limited role for the State." {{ISBN|978-1604860641}}. According to Sheldon Richman of the Independent Institute, other left-libertarians "prefer that corporate privileges be repealed before the regulatory restrictions on how those privileges may be exercised."WEB, Richman, Sheldon, 2011-02-03, Libertarian Left,weblink 2023-01-01, The American Conservative, en-US, 2023-01-01,weblink live,

Property rights

Left-libertarians generally uphold self-ownership and oppose strong private property rights, instead supporting the egalitarian distribution of natural resources.{{Sfn|Carlson|2012|p=1006}} Other left-libertarians believe that neither claiming nor mixing one's labor with natural resources is enough to generate full private property rightsCarlson (2012). p. 1007. "[Left-libertarians] disagree with right-libertarians with respect to property rights, arguing instead that individuals have no inherent right to natural resources. Namely, these resources must be treated as collective property that is made available on an egalitarian basis."ENCYCLOPEDIA, 2008, The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, SAGE Publishing, Sage; Cato Institute, Thousand Oaks, CA,weblink Hamowy, Ronald, Ronald Hamowy, 288–289, 10.4135/9781412965811.n174, 978-1412965804, 2008009151, 750831024, [Left libertarians] regard each of us as full self-owners. Left libertarians embrace the view that all natural resources, land, oil, gold, trees, and so on should be held collectively. To the extent that individuals make use of these commonly owned goods, they must do so only with the permission of society, a permission granted only under the provision that a certain payment for their use be made to society at large., Narveson, Jan, Jan Narveson, Trenchard, David, Left Libertarianism, 2016-03-18, 2023-01-09,weblink live, and maintain that natural resources ought to be held in an egalitarian manner, either unowned or owned collectively.ENCYCLOPEDIA, Vallentyne, Peter, Libertarianism, 2014,weblink The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Zalta, Edward N., Summer 2014, Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2023-01-01, 2024-02-08,weblink live, Political scientist Peter Mclaverty notes it has been argued that socialist values are incompatible with the concept of self-ownership when this concept is considered "the core feature of libertarianism" and socialism is defined as holding "that we are social beings, that society should be organised, and individuals should act, so as to promote the common good, that we should strive to achieve social equality and promote democracy, community and solidarity."JOURNAL, Socialism and libertarianism, Mclaverty, Peter, 2005, Journal of Political Ideologies, 10, 2, 185–198, 10.1080/13569310500097349, 144693867, However, political philosopher Nicholas Vrousalis has also argued that "property rights [...] do not pass judgment as to what rights individuals have to their own person [...] [and] to the external world" and that "the nineteenth-century egalitarian libertarians were not misguided in thinking that a thoroughly libertarian form of communism is possible at the level of principle."JOURNAL, Libertarian Socialism: A Better Reconciliation between Self-Ownership and Equality, Vrousalis, Nicholas, April 2011, Social Theory and Practice, 37, 2, 221–226, 10.5840/soctheorpract201137213, 1703457, 23558541,

Economics

Other left-libertarians make a libertarian reading of progressive and social-democratic economics to advocate a universal basic income. Building on Michael Otsuka's conception of "robust libertarian self-ownership", Karl Widerquist argues that a universal basic income must be large enough to maintain individual independence regardless of the market value of resources because people in contemporary society have been denied direct access to enough resources with which they could otherwise maintain their existence in the absence of interference by people who control access to resources.Widerquist, Karl (2013). "What Good Is a Theory of Freedom That Allows Forced Labor? Independence and Modern Theory of Freedom". Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income: A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No Updating. New York City: Springer. pp. 121–143. {{ISBN|978-1137313096}}.

Schools of thought

Classical liberalism

Contemporary left-libertarian scholars such as David Ellerman, Michael Otsuka, Hillel Steiner, Peter Vallentyne, and Philippe Van Parijs root an economic egalitarianism in the classical liberal concepts of self-ownership and appropriation. They hold that it is illegitimate for anyone to claim private ownership of natural resources to the detriment of others, a condition John Locke explicated in Two Treatises of Government.Kymlicka, Will (2005). "libertarianism, left-". In Honderich, Ted. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press. "[Left-libertarians maintain that] the world's natural resources were initially unowned, or belonged equally to all, and it is illegitimate for anyone to claim exclusive private ownership of these resources to the detriment of others. Such private appropriation is legitimate only if everyone can appropriate an equal amount, or if those who appropriate more are taxed to compensate those who are thereby excluded from what was once common property." Most left-libertarians of this tradition support some form of economic rent redistribution on the grounds that each individual is entitled to an equal share of natural resourcesBOOK, Gaus, Gerald F., Kukathas, Chandran,weblink Handbook of Political Theory, 2004, Sage, 978-0-7619-6787-3, en, 2016-03-18, 2017-10-10,weblink live, and argue for the desirability of state social welfare programs.Van Parijs, Phillippe (1998). Real Freedom for All: What (If Anything) Can Justify Capitalism? Oxford: Clarendon-Oxford University Press.Individuals in this left-libertarian tradition include Henry George, Locke, Thomas Paine, William Ogilvie of Pittensear, Herbert Spencer, and more recently, Baruch Brody, Ellerman, James O. Grunebaum, Otsuka, Steiner, Vallentyne and Van Parijs, among others.{{Sfn|Kymlicka|2005|p=516}}Fried, Barbara (Winter 2004). "Left-Libertarianism: A Review Essay". Philosophy & Public Affairs. 32 (1): 66–92. {{JSTOR|3557982}}. Hippolyte de Colins,Deshpande, Meena; Vinod, M. J. (2000). Contemporary Political Theory. "Left-libertarianism". PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd. p. 243. {{ISBN|978-8120347137}}. George, François Huet, William Ogilvie of Pittensear, Paine, and Léon Walras are left-libertarians also seen as being within the left-liberal tradition of socialism.Philosophical anarchist William Godwin, classical economists such as David Ricardo,Kerr, Gavin (2017). The Property-Owning Democracy: Freedom and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century. Taylor & Francis. p. 94. {{ISBN|978-1441153777}}. Thomas Robert Malthus, Nassau William Senior, Robert Torrens, and the Mills, the early writings of Herbert Spencer,BOOK, Fried, Barba, 2020, Facing Up to Scarcity: The Logic and Limits of Nonconsequentialist Thought, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 176, 978-0198847878, socialists such as Thomas Hodgskin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, social reformer Henry George and the Ricardian/Smithian socialists,JOURNAL, J. E., King, Utopian or scientific? A reconsideration of the Ricardian Socialists, History of Political Economy, 15, 3, 345–373, 1983, 10.1215/00182702-15-3-345, BOOK, Noel W., Thompson, The People's Science: The Popular Political Economy of Exploitation and Crisis 1816–34, Ricardian socialists/Smithian socialists: what's in a name?, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984, 82–110, 0521893429, among others, "provided the basis for the further development of the left libertarian perspective."Ryley, Peter (2013). Making Another World Possible: Anarchism, Anti-capitalism and Ecology in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Britain. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 5. {{ISBN|978-1441153777}}.

Green politics

Bookchin was one of the main influences behind the formation of the Alliance 90/The Greens, the first green party to win seats in state and national parliaments. Modern green parties attempt to apply these ideas to a more pragmatic system of democratic governance as opposed to contemporary individualist or socialist libertarianism. The green movement, especially its more left-wing factions, is often described by political scientists as left-libertarian.JOURNAL, Kitschelt, Herbert, 1988, The Life Expectancy of Left-Libertarian Parties. Does Structural Transformation or Economic Decline Explain Party Innovation? A Response to Wilhelm P. Bürklin,weblink European Sociological Review, 4, 2, 155–160, 10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036474, 522545, 0266-7215, 2019-11-30, 2019-06-07,weblink live, JOURNAL, Redding, Kent, Viterna, Jocelyn S., 1999, Political Demands, Political Opportunities: Explaining the Differential Success of Left-Libertarian Parties,weblink Social Forces, 78, 2, 491–510, 10.2307/3005565, 3005565, 0037-7732, 2019-11-30, 2020-08-06,weblink live, Van Kersbergen, Kees; Green-Pedersen, Christoffer (2002). "The Politics of the 'Third Way': The Transformation of Social Democracy in Denmark and the Netherlands" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017210912weblink |date=2006-10-17 }}. Party Politics. 8 (5): 507–524.JOURNAL, Neumayer, Eric, June 2003, Are left-wing party strength and corporatism good for the environment? Evidence from panel analysis of air pollution in OECD countries,weblink Ecological Economics, en, 45, 2, 203–220, 10.1016/S0921-8009(03)00012-0, 0921-8009, 2019-11-29, 2019-05-11,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20190511010944weblink">weblink live, Political scientists see European political parties such as Ecolo and Groen in Belgium, Alliance 90/The Greens in Germany, or the Green Progressive Accord and GroenLinks in the Netherlands as coming out of the New Left and emphasizing spontaneous self-organisation, participatory democracy, decentralization and voluntarism, being contrasted to the bureaucratic or statist approach. Similarly, political scientist Ariadne Vromen has described the Australian Greens as having a "clear left-libertarian ideological base."JOURNAL, Vromen, Ariadne, 2005,weblink Who are the Australian Greens? Surveying the membership, Ethnographic Praxis in Industry, 15 July 2020,

Libertarian socialism

File:Noam chomsky cropped.jpg|thumb|right|Noam ChomskyNoam ChomskyLibertarian socialism is a left-libertarian tendencyBOOK, Bookchin, Murray, Biehl, Janet, 1999, The Murray Bookchin Reader, Black Rose Books, 170, 1-55164-119-4, 98-71026, The most creative feature of traditional anarchism is its commitment to four basic tenets: a confederation of decentralized municipalities; an unwavering opposition to statism; a belief in direct democracy; and a vision of a libertarian communist society. The most important issue that left-libertarianism -libertarian socialism no less than anarchism- faces today is: What will it do with these four powerful tenets? How will we give them social form and content? In what ways and by what means will we render them relevant to our time and bring them to the service of an organized popular movement for empowerment and freedom?, JOURNAL, Sullivan, Mark A., July 2003, Why the Georgist Movement Has Not Succeeded: A Personal Response to the Question Raised by Warren J. Samuels, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 62, 3, Blackwell Publishing, 612, 10.1111/1536-7150.00232, 3487815, In this, Tucker and George, the Anarchist and the Single Taxer, were in agreement-their respective positions can be seen as variations of libertarian socialism or, to borrow a label from Peter Valentyne and Hillel Steiner, Left-Libertarianism., within the socialist movement that rejects the state socialist notion of socialism as centralized state ownership and statist control of the economy.Long, Roderick T. (Summer 1998). "Toward a libertarian theory of class". Social Philosophy and Policy. 15 (2): 305. "Unlike other socialists, they tend to see (to various different degrees, depending on the thinker) to be skeptical of centralized state intervention as the solution to capitalist exploitation [...]."{{FV|date=August 2023|reason=Cited source never references "left-libertarianism", so unclear what it has to do with the subject of this article.}}

Market-oriented left-libertarianism

{{multiple image| align = right| image1 = BenjaminTucker.jpg| width1 = 150| image2 = LysanderSpooner.jpg| width2 = 142| footer = Benjamin Tucker (left) and Lysander Spooner (right), who have greatly influenced the development of left-wing libertarianism in the United States}}American individualist anarchists are opposed to property that gives privilege and is exploitative.BOOK, An Anarchist FAQ, AK Press, 2012, 978-1849351225, McKay, Iain, I/II, Stirling, Appendix: Anarchism and 'anarcho'-capitalism, 2008, {{Unbalanced opinion|date=May 2024}} Certain American left-wing market anarchists who come from the left-Rothbardian school such as Roderick T. Long and Sheldon Richman, cite Murray Rothbard's homestead principle with approval to support worker cooperatives.WEB, Carson, Kevin, The Left-Rothbardians, Part I: Rothbard,weblink 2023-01-01, Center for a Stateless Society, en-US, What most people ordinarily identify as the stereotypical "libertarian" privatization proposal, unfortunately, goes something like this: sell it to a giant corporation on terms that are most advantageous to the corporation. Rothbard proposed, instead, was to treat state property as unowned, and allowing it to be homesteaded by those actually occupying it and mixing their labor with it. This would mean transforming government utilities, schools and other services into consumer cooperatives and placing them under the direct control of their present clientele. It would mean handing over state industry to workers' syndicates and transforming it into worker-owned cooperatives., 2019-09-24,weblink live, Also referred to as left-wing market anarchists,Chartier, Gary; Johnson, Charles W. (2011). Markets Not Capitalism. Brooklyn: Minor Compositions/Autonomedia. pp. 1–16. according to Sheldon Richman in The American Conservative, these proponents of this market-oriented left-libertarian approach strongly affirm the classical liberal ideas of self-ownership and free markets, while maintaining that, taken to their logical conclusions, these ideas support strongly anti-corporatist, anti-hierarchical, pro-labor positions in economics; anti-imperialism in foreign policy; and thoroughly liberal or radical views regarding such cultural issues as gender, sexuality and race. Members of this school typically urge the abolition of the state, arguing that vast disparities in wealth and social influence result from the use of force—especially state power—to steal and engross land and acquire and maintain special privileges. They judge that in a stateless society the kinds of privileges secured by the state will be absent and injustices perpetrated or tolerated by the state can be rectified, concluding that with state interference eliminated it will be possible to achieve "socialist ends by market means."Chartier, Gary (2009). Socialist Ends, Market Means: Five Essays. Tulsa: Tulsa Alliance of the Libertarian Left.According to libertarian Sheldon Richman, left-libertarians "favor worker solidarity vis-à-vis bosses, support poor people's squatting on government or abandoned property, and prefer that corporate privileges be repealed before the regulatory restrictions on how those privileges may be exercised." Richman says left-libertarians see Walmart as a symbol of corporate favoritism, being "supported by highway subsidies and eminent domain", viewing "the fictive personhood of the limited-liability corporation with suspicion" and doubting that "Third World sweatshops would be the 'best alternative' in the absence of government manipulation." Richman also says left-libertarians also tend to "eschew electoral politics, having little confidence in strategies that work through the government [and] prefer to develop alternative institutions and methods of working around the state."In the 21st century, left-libertarianism has come to encapsulate forms of free-market anti-capitalism,{{Sfn|Long|2012|p=227}} such as the mutualism of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Benjamin Tucker.{{Sfn|Long|2012|p=227}}

Steiner–Vallentyne school

Contemporary left-libertarian scholars such as David Ellerman,Ellerman, David (1992). Property and Contract in Economics: The Case for Economic Democracy. Cambridge MA: Blackwell.Ellerman, David (1990). The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm. London: Unwin Hyman. Michael Otsuka,*BOOK, Otsuka, Michael, Libertarianism Without Inequality, Oxford University Press, New York, 2005, 978-0199280186, Hillel Steiner,Steiner, Hillel (1994). An Essay on Rights. Oxford: Blackwell. Peter Vallentyne(2000). Left Libertarianism and Its Critics: The Contemporary Debate. In Vallentyne, Peter; and Steiner, Hillel. London:Palgrave. and Philippe Van ParijsVan Parijs, Philippe (2009). Marxism Recycled. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. root an economic egalitarianism in the classical liberal concepts of self-ownership and land appropriation, combined with geoist or physiocratic views regarding the ownership of land and natural resources (e.g. those of Henry George and John Locke).Vallentyne, Peter (2007). "Libertarianism and the State". Liberalism: Old and New. In Paul, Ellen Frankel; Miller Jr., Fred; Paul, Jeffrey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 199.JOURNAL, Casal, Paula, Global Taxes on Natural Resources, Journal of Moral Philosophy, 2011, 8, 3, 307–327,weblink 14 March 2014, It can also invoke geoism, a philosophical tradition encompassing the views of John Locke and Henry George [...]., 10.1163/174552411x591339, 14 March 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140314175836weblink">weblink live, Scholars representing this school of left-libertarianism often understand their position in contrast to right-libertarians, who maintain that there are no fair share constraints on use or appropriation that individuals have the power to appropriate unowned things by claiming them (usually by mixing their labor with them) and deny any other conditions or considerations are relevant and that there is no justification for the state to redistribute resources to the needy or to overcome market failures. A number of left-libertarians of this school argue for the desirability of some state social welfare programs.Van Parijs, Phillippe (1998). Real Freedom for All: What (If Anything) Can Justify Capitalism? Oxford:Clarendon-Oxford University Press.Daskal, Steve (1 January 2010). "Libertarianism Left and Right, the Lockean Proviso, and the Reformed Welfare State". Social Theory and Practice. p. 1. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516070924weblink|date=16 May 2011}}. Left-libertarians of the Carson–Long left-libertarianism school typically endorse the labor-based property rights that Steiner–Vallentyne left-libertarians reject, but they hold that implementing such rights would have radical rather than conservative consequences.BOOK, Vallentyne, Peter, Steiner, Hillel, The Origins of Left-Libertarianism, Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2000, 978-0312235918, Left-libertarians of the Steiner–Vallentyne type hold that it is illegitimate for anyone to claim private ownership of natural resources to the detriment of others.{{Sfn|Kymlicka|2005|p=516}} These left-libertarians support some form of income redistribution on the grounds of a claim by each individual to be entitled to an equal share of natural resources.BOOK, Vallentyne, Peter, Steiner, Hillel, Left-Libertarianism and Its Critics, Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2000, 978-0312236991, 1, 1057919438, Unappropriated natural resources are either unowned or owned in common and private appropriation is only legitimate if everyone can appropriate an equal amount or if private appropriation is taxed to compensate those who are excluded from natural resources.BOOK, Gaus, Gerald F., Kukathas, Chandran,weblink Handbook of Political Theory, 2004, Mack, Eric, Gaus, Gerald F., Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism: The Liberty Tradition, Sage, 978-0-7619-6787-3, en, 128, 2023-01-29, 2024-02-08,weblink live,

See also

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• Cellular democracy
• Civil libertarianism
• Cultural liberalism
• Cultural radicalism
• Drug liberalization
• Grassroots democracy
• Individualist feminism
• (:Category:Left-libertarians|Left-libertarians) (category)
• Libertarian Democrat
• Libertarian municipalism
• Libertarian paternalism
• Libertarian transhumanism
• Lockean proviso
• Market socialism
• Neoclassical liberalism
• Outline of libertarianism
• Radical movement
• Refusal of work

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References

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Further reading

• BOOK, Rothbard, Murray N., Murray Rothbard, Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought (Complete, 1965–1968), Mises Institute, Auburn, AL, 2007, 978-1610160407, Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought,
• JOURNAL, Vallentyne, Peter, Peter Vallentyne, Hillel Steiner, Michael Otsuka, Steiner, Hillel, Otsuka, Michael, 2005, Why Left-Libertarianism is not Incoherent, Indeterminate, or Irrelevant,weblink Philosophy & Public Affairs, 33, 2, 201–215, 10.1111/j.1088-4963.2005.00030.x, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080911064302weblink">weblink 11 September 2008,
• Vallentyne, Peter (2000). weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100702184359weblink">"Left-Libertarianism: A Primer" (full text; final draft). In Vallentyne, Peter; Steiner, Hillel (eds.). Left Libertarianism and Its Critics: The Contemporary Debate. Palgrave Publishers Ltd. pp. 1–20.

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