The problem with left and right is it lumps economy and social issues together.
You could have no problem with a tightly controlled economy, but that does not make you an authoritative dictator like Stalin or Hitler if you allow the state to have many civil liberties. In fact, the economy can be tightly structured in such a way that it lends itself to the needs of the many rather than the few -- this is extremely antithetical to one person dictating control.
Conversely, it's actually pretty dangerous to have a smaller government, because that would reduce the number of controlling heads, and increases the chance of despotism.
It's pretty unnerving, but there is this false assumption that libertarians need to swing to the right. That's patently false, and most people (at least on this planet) are actually libertarian socialists.
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Left-libertarianism
Main article:
Left-libertarianism
Left-libertarianism is usually regarded as a doctrine that has an
egalitarian view concerning natural resources, holding that it is not legitimate for someone to claim private ownership of such resources to the detriment of others.
[63][92][93][94] Most 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, including
Georgist supporters of a single tax.
[94][95] Some claim it is standard for left-libertarians to support substantial redistributive welfare programs.
[96] Left libertarianism is defended by contemporary theorists such as
Peter Vallentyne, Hillel Steiner and
Michael Otsuka.
[93] The term is also sometimes used as a synonym for
libertarian socialism.
[97]
The
Encyclopedia of Political Theory describes
Noam Chomsky as an anti-statist left-libertarian.
[98] Chomsky shares an egalitarian view of resources such as
natural capital. Left-libertarians like Chomsky
[99] promote
free association in place of governments and institutions of capitalism (if defined as private ownership and control over
means of production).
[8] Chomsky has described this
libertarian socialism as an anarchist philosophy.
[8]
Some members of the U.S. libertarian movement, including the late Samuel Edward Konkin
[100] and members of the
Alliance of the Libertarian Left as
Roderick Long, and
Gary Chartier support property rights and identify themselves with the political left for a variety of reasons. They tend to oppose
intellectual property, war, and state policies they believe cause poverty.
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