Libertarian Socialism

Libertarian Socialism
Author: Alex Prichard
Publisher: PM Press
Total Pages: 550
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1629634026

The history of anarchist-Marxist relations is usually told as a history of factionalism and division. These essays, based on original research and written especially for this collection, reveal some of the enduring sores in the revolutionary socialist movement in order to explore the important, too often neglected left-libertarian currents that have thrived in revolutionary socialist movements. By turns, the collection interrogates the theoretical boundaries between Marxism and anarchism and the process of their formation, the overlaps and creative tensions that shaped left-libertarian theory and practice, and the stumbling blocks to movement cooperation. Bringing together specialists working from a range of political perspectives, the book charts a history of radical twentieth-century socialism, and opens new vistas for research in the twenty-first. Contributors examine the political and social thought of a number of leading socialists—Marx, Morris, Sorel, Gramsci, Guérin, C.L.R. James, Hardt and Negri—and key movements including the Situationist International, Socialisme ou Barbarie and Council Communism. Analysis of activism in the UK, Australasia, and the U.S. serves as the prism to discuss syndicalism, carnival anarchism, and the anarchistic currents in the U.S. civil rights movement. Contributors include Paul Blackledge, Lewis H. Mates, Renzo Llorente, Carl Levy, Christian Høgsbjerg, Andrew Cornell, Benoît Challand, Jean-Christophe Angaut, Toby Boraman, and David Bates.

Libertarian Socialism 85 Success Secrets - 85 Most Asked Questions on Libertarian Socialism - What You Need to Know

Libertarian Socialism 85 Success Secrets - 85 Most Asked Questions on Libertarian Socialism - What You Need to Know
Author: Stephen Conway
Publisher: Emereo Publishing
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2014-10-30
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781488864988

Fresh, new, and contemporary Libertarian socialism. Libertarian socialism (sometimes named communal disorder either left-libertarianism) is a cluster of governmental viewpoints that advance a non-hierarchical, non-bureaucratic association short of undisclosed assets in the intents of manufacture. Libertarian socialists trust in changing contemporary undisclosed fertile assets in to commonplace either common wares, when keeping regard for private assets. Libertarian socialism is against to coercive forms of communal business. It promotes unbound alliance in place of political authority and disapproves the communal connections of free-market system, such like pay toil. The expression libertarian socialism is applied by a few socialists to distinguish their doctrine as of state socialism, and by a few as a alternative word for disorder. There has never been a Libertarian socialism Guide like this. It contains 85 answers, much more than you can imagine; comprehensive answers and extensive details and references, with insights that have never before been offered in print. Get the information you need--fast! This all-embracing guide offers a thorough view of key knowledge and detailed insight. This Guide introduces what you want to know about Libertarian socialism. A quick look inside of some of the subjects covered: Libertarian - Anarchism, Libertarian socialist - Anti-capitalism, Individualism - Libertarian socialism, Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (Counter-Power vol. 1) - Other core theses, Anarchist Catalonia - 1936 Revolution and worker's self management, Libertarian - Libertarian socialism, Mutualism (economic theory) - History, Libertarian socialist - Libertarian Marxist tendencies, Business ethics - Related disciplines, Libertarian socialist - Zapatismo and Magonism, Agorism - Konkin's class theory, Spanish Revolution, Anarchists, History of anarchism - The Spanish Revolution, and much more...

Political Philosophy

Political Philosophy
Author: Source Wikipedia
Publisher: University-Press.org
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781230612591

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 172. Chapters: Libertarian socialism, Conscience, Biopower, Libertarianism, Liberalism, Individualism, Leadership, Truth, Social Credit, Emperor, Otium, Frankfurt School, Philosophy of history, Progressive Era, Governmentality, Positivism, Post-politics, Classical liberalism. Excerpt: Libertarian socialism (sometimes called social anarchism or left-libertarianism) is a group of political philosophies that promote a non-hierarchical, non-bureaucratic society without private property in the means of production. Libertarian socialists believe in converting present-day private productive property into common or public goods, while retaining respect for personal property. Libertarian socialism is opposed to coercive forms of social organization. It promotes free association in place of government and opposes the social relations of capitalism, such as wage labor. The term libertarian socialism is used by some socialists to differentiate their philosophy from state socialism, and by some as a synonym for left anarchism. Adherents of libertarian socialism assert that a society based on freedom and equality can be achieved through abolishing authoritarian institutions that control certain means of production and subordinate the majority to an owning class or political and economic elite. Libertarian socialism also constitutes a tendency of thought that promotes the identification, criticism, and practical dismantling of illegitimate authority in all aspects of life. Accordingly, libertarian socialists believe that "the exercise of power in any institutionalized form-whether economic, political, religious, or sexual-brutalizes both the wielder of power and the one over whom it is exercised." Libertarian socialists generally place their hopes in decentralized means of direct democracy such as libertarian municipalism, citizens'...

Libertarian Socialism

Libertarian Socialism
Author: Source Wikipedia
Publisher: Booksllc.Net
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781230750231

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Anarchism in Vietnam, Communalism (political philosophy), Communization, De Leonism, Impossibilism, Libertarian Marxism, Libertarian municipalism, Mutualism (economic theory), Participism, Social ecology. Excerpt: Libertarian socialism (sometimes called social anarchism or left-libertarianism) is a group of political philosophies that promote a non-hierarchical, non-bureaucratic society without private property in the means of production. Libertarian socialists believe in converting present-day private productive property into common or public goods, while retaining respect for personal property. Libertarian socialism is opposed to coercive forms of social organization. It promotes free association in place of government and opposes the social relations of capitalism, such as wage labor. The term libertarian socialism is used by some socialists to differentiate their philosophy from state socialism, and by some as a synonym for left anarchism. Adherents of libertarian socialism assert that a society based on freedom and equality can be achieved through abolishing authoritarian institutions that control certain means of production and subordinate the majority to an owning class or political and economic elite. Libertarian socialism also constitutes a tendency of thought that promotes the identification, criticism, and practical dismantling of illegitimate authority in all aspects of life. Accordingly, libertarian socialists believe that "the exercise of power in any institutionalized form-whether economic, political, religious, or sexual-brutalizes both the wielder of power and the one over whom it is exercised." Libertarian socialists generally place their hopes in decentralized means of direct democracy such as libertarian municipalism, citizens' assemblies, trade unions, and workers' councils. Political...

Social Anarchism

Social Anarchism
Author: Source Wikipedia
Publisher: University-Press.org
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781230833446

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Communalism, Commune (socialism), Direct democracy, Inclusive Democracy, Left anarchism, Libertarian socialism, Mutual aid (organization theory), Participatory economics, Propaganda of the deed, Social revolution. Excerpt: Libertarian socialism (sometimes called social anarchism or left-libertarianism) is a group of political philosophies that promote a non-hierarchical, non-bureaucratic society without private property in the means of production. Libertarian socialists believe in converting present-day private productive property into common or public goods, while retaining respect for personal property. Libertarian socialism is opposed to coercive forms of social organization. It promotes free association in place of government and opposes the social relations of capitalism, such as wage labor. The term libertarian socialism is used by some socialists to differentiate their philosophy from state socialism, and by some as a synonym for left anarchism. Adherents of libertarian socialism assert that a society based on freedom and equality can be achieved through abolishing authoritarian institutions that control certain means of production and subordinate the majority to an owning class or political and economic elite. Libertarian socialism also constitutes a tendency of thought that promotes the identification, criticism, and practical dismantling of illegitimate authority in all aspects of life. Accordingly, libertarian socialists believe that "the exercise of power in any institutionalized form-whether economic, political, religious, or sexual-brutalizes both the wielder of power and the one over whom it is exercised." Libertarian socialists generally place their hopes in decentralized means of direct democracy such as libertarian municipalism, citizens' assemblies, trade unions, and workers' councils....

Was Jesus a Socialist?

Was Jesus a Socialist?
Author: Lawrence W Reed
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2020-06-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1504063716

Economist and historian Lawrence W. Reed has been hearing people say “Jesus was a socialist” for fifty years. And it has always bothered him. Now he is doing something about it. Reed demolishes the claim that Jesus was a socialist. Jesus called on earthly governments to redistribute wealth? Or centrally plan the economy? Or even impose a welfare state? Hardly. Point by point, Reed answers the claims of socialists and progressives who try to enlist Jesus in their causes. As he reveals, nothing in the New Testament supports their contentions. Was Jesus a Socialist? could not be more timely. Socialism has made a shocking comeback in America. Poll after poll shows that young Americans have a positive image of socialism. In fact, more than half say they would rather live in a socialist country than in a capitalist one. And as socialism has come back into vogue, more and more of its advocates have tried to convince us that Jesus was a socialist. This rhetoric has had an impact. According to a 2016 poll by the Barna Group, Americans think socialism aligns better with Jesus’s teachings than capitalism does. When respondents were asked which of that year’s presidential candidates aligned closest to Jesus’s teachings, a self-proclaimed “democratic socialist” came out on top. Sure enough, the same candidate earned more primary votes from under-thirty voters than did the eventual Democratic and Republican nominees combined. And in a 2019 survey, more than seventy percent of millennials said they were likely to vote for a socialist. Was Jesus a Socialist? expands on the immensely popular video of the same name that Reed recorded for Prager University in July 2019. That video has attracted more than four million views online. Ultimately, Reed shows the foolishness of trying to enlist Jesus in any political cause today. He writes: “While I don’t believe it is valid to claim that Jesus was a socialist, I also don’t think it is valid to argue that he was a capitalist. Neither was he a Republican or a Democrat. These are modern-day terms, and to apply any of them to Jesus is to limit him to but a fraction of who he was and what he taught.”

The Libertarian Mind

The Libertarian Mind
Author: David Boaz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2015-02-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1476752877

A revised, updated, and retitled edition of David Boaz’s classic book Libertarianism: A Primer, which was praised as uniting “history, philosophy, economics and law—spiced with just the right anecdotes—to bring alive a vital tradition of American political thought that deserves to be honored today” (Richard A. Epstein, University of Chicago). Libertarianism—the philosophy of personal and economic freedom—has deep roots in Western civilization and in American history, and it’s growing stronger. Two long wars, chronic deficits, the financial crisis, the costly drug war, the campaigns of Ron Paul and Rand Paul, the growth of executive power under Presidents Bush and Obama, and the revelations about NSA abuses have pushed millions more Americans in a libertarian direction. Libertarianism: A Primer, by David Boaz, the longtime executive vice president of the Cato Institute, continues to be the best available guide to the history, ideas, and growth of this increasingly important political movement—and now it has been updated throughout and with a new title: The Libertarian Mind. Boaz has updated the book with new information on the threat of government surveillance; the policies that led up to and stemmed from the 2008 financial crisis; corruption in Washington; and the unsustainable welfare state. The Libertarian Mind is the ultimate resource for the current, burgeoning libertarian movement.

Notes on Anarchism

Notes on Anarchism
Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher:
Total Pages: 14
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Anarchism
ISBN: 9781909798281

Chomsky's seminal essay first published in the 1973 collection For Reasons Of State. Twenty years later "My thinking on these matters has not changed in any essential respect."

Critical Theory and Libertarian Socialism

Critical Theory and Libertarian Socialism
Author: Charles Masquelier
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015-07-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1501311018

This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume brings together critical theory and libertarian socialism to realize critical theory's political potential.