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u/aim2free · 9 pointsr/LibertarianLeft

For my own I consider the text trying to explain too much in classical authoritarian terms, I would even say that it's very conservative. Further on the text does not explain the most essential about left libertarianism from my perspective, which can be summarized in these sentences:

  • share what is sharable (i.e. information, knowledge)
  • collaborate about the rest (space, skills, finite resources)
  • treat others as you want others treat you.

    I have also summarized the information/knowledge aspect and privacy aspect in one sentence like this:

    "you can not own information you define, but only you own the information which defines you".

    Also, although this has not much to do with left libertarianism I think, but one fundamental problem I found with this society already 40 years ago, when I was 17 years old, that was the adverse effect the monetary system has on people. A few days ago I saw this picture, and I would say that it summarizes the problem quite well.

    Also this picture I found I consider summarizes the left libertarian principles well (at least from my perspective, but we may of course be motivated of different reasons).

    One principle which has been known since eons is that money does only work as a motivator for the simplest of jobs, requiring no brain or creativity. This was recently proven by MIT-researcher Daniel Pink. Our motivation comes from the inside, not from the outside. If you have access to Wiley there is a text here, which is a review of his book, also found a book link here. There is also a Ted Talk (1/2), Ted Talk (2/2) as well as an RSA animation. Personally I like the compact, efficient style of the RSA animations.

    In summary: Trying to motivate people by money decreses their performance!

    From my own observations during the last 40 years since I became aware about the problems of money, there is in principle nothing wrong with money as such, they consistute a great idea, but they affect people's mind in a tremendously bad way. First, you said you had been a market anarchist, this is also great, but as you are certainly aware, today's capitalism is not a market economy. There are too many anti-capitalistic instruments built-in, which strives to create an anti-competetive monopolism instead.

    The most serious anti-capitalistic instruments I consider: Proprietary secret technoloy and software, Patents, Commercial copyright, You can buy your competitior, No real incentives to invest in machines, Banks producing fiat money.
u/big_al11 · 1 pointr/LibertarianLeft

I don't think we can agree. The most radical democratic, libertarian projects in the world we/are being carried out in Venezuela. 99.9% of the stuff you read about the country is misleading, at best. Even the liberal/progressive press is guilty of this; one libertarian socialist, Michael Albert, has recently written about it. ( I would point out that since his article, progressive news outlets have been much better)

One good book from a Libertarian left perspective, which goes ino the positives and negatives of the socialist party in Venezuela is We created Chavez: a people's history of the Venezuelan Revolution by George Ciccarello-Maher

u/chaunceyvonfontleroy · 2 pointsr/LibertarianLeft

It's a fiction book, but "The Dispossessed" is a great read and deals with a libertarian socialist society. Seriously, read this book!

The above link is to Amazon, here's a link to a non-possessed copy ;D

u/Illin_Spree · 2 pointsr/LibertarianLeft

Carson is a good source as he'll be up to date on the recent literature.

Classics include
https://www.amazon.com/Human-Scale-Kirkpatrick-Sale/dp/1897408064

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a067/3bea0b8bc969a1b90d9949fb02660fc844db.pdf

Also look into the work of Ralph Borsodi and Rudolf Bahro.

Debates about scale, including the appropriate balance between international, national, and local institutions, are an important considerations for "21st Century Socialism", "Economic Democracy" and other contemporary versions of socialism that are debated at thenextsystemproject.

u/errandwolfe · 1 pointr/LibertarianLeft

So is a lot more of the music from the Flobots. Definitely some of the most socially conscious music out there.

Might I also suggest this little diddy though:
http://www.amazon.com/Monkey-Bars-Explicit/dp/B004XZ7LB4

u/sunthas · 2 pointsr/LibertarianLeft

I try to post environment related articles that I think can get some traction in /r/libertarian from time to time.

the author of Holy Cows and Hog Heaven calls himself a Christian Environmentalist Libertarian.

I would probably include environmentalist in my identification.

u/werealldoodshey · 11 pointsr/LibertarianLeft

The word 'libertarian' was more or less accidentally usuped by the American right-wing pseudoconservatives, to use Hofstadter's term, who used it to describe their racist, nativist, pro-state movement. It really has nothing to do with the historical usage of the word libertarian, which had before that time always been used to refer exclusively to anti-state, decenralist, anti-authoritarian socialists, of which group anarchism plays a significant role.