No, obviously not. It’s fair game to constantly whinge about right-libertarians being “vulgar”, but not the converse… necessarily so! I’m of half a mind to shut this silly thread.
That would probably be for the best. Unless we get new material and/or new participants, the left-right debate is just going to go in circles.
I think you missed a word in your sentence, kind of hard to interpret without whatever word you missed
Egalitarianism gives examples of “passive coercion” such as letting someone starve or freeze to death. This is implicitly saying that individuals have positive rights of things that sustain life rather than just the freedom to attain those things.
Is this not what you mean? Every person who is egalitarian I have talked to says as much.
He means egalitarianism in this sense.
Which is silly.
I guess it’s been already done but what about pointing out that ‘left’ may mean at least 3 different things here ?
- left-libertarianism means rejection of ordinary electoral/statist politics. No socialism there, quite the opposite.
- left-libertarianism means rejection of ‘conservative values’. In my opinion rejection of conservative values is plain libertarianism.
- left-libertarianism means some left-libertarians have sympathies for economic systems that, while being voluntary, are not precisely conducent to the creation of a sophisticated industrial society.
Yep. Anarcho-semantics.