Meanings
- uncountableA type of libertarianism that stresses both individual freedom and social equality, and advocates shared ownership of natural resources.
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.
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, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC1 more example
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.
2012, Hillel Steiner, quoting Peter Vallentyne, “Left Libertarianism”, in Gerald F. Gaus, Fred D'Agostino, editors, The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 412Synonyms: social libertarianism
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA type of libertarianism that stresses both individual freedom and social equality, and advocates shared ownership of natural resources.
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