Alliance of the Libertarian Left

[Pierre.Laporte]

Does anyone else not understand where the left comes from in "Alliance of the Libertarian Left." Perhaps they might be able to get away with that by the inclusion of Mutualists, but what is their reasoning behind calling themselves "the left."

Does their simple embrace of liberal social policies somehow justify their "leftness?"

I would love an explanation if anyone had one.

[Os Cangaceiros]

They're using the term "left libertarian" as Samuel Konkin used it; i.e. "Left Rothbardianism".

They're less obnoxious than the usual anarcho-capitalists in that they admit that things like racism/homophobia/patriarchy exist and are bad, but they're not really "left" in any meaningful sense of the word.

[Havet]

They justify the use of the word "left" here (http://liberalaw.blogspot.com/2008/12/left-in-left-libertarian.html).

I also made a thread (http://www.revleft.com/vb/left-left-libertarian-t122374/index.html?t=122374) about it previously, in case your interested.

As I understand it, they use "left" synonimously with "anti-capitalism", hence why we call ourselves, "free-market anti-capitalists"

[Dean]

Well, I think most of these people mean well (like our resident Mutualists) though most of them take pretty absurd positions, don't critically assess the differences between mutualism and other economic models besides a perceived "moral superiority" in maintaining capitalist/propertarian concepts of "theft."

But its worth noting that the difference they have with 'mainstream' leftism is tantamount to the difference anarchists have with Marxists and other socialists: the mutualist model is simply applied primarily to economic models.