Socialist minarchism

[GPDP]

Would such a thing be possible? Or are many so-called anarchists and other assorted "libertarian" socialists already basically left-minarchists, opposed to centralized Leninism but not quite ready to call themselves anarchists?

[FreeFocus]

Empowering the government that much is antithetical to minarchism. As for me, personally, I generally do not extend enthusiastic support to statist socialists, although I very critically support some parties. I don't believe in settling for a political quagmire (all this talk of a "worker's state," which never happens because the workers don't control anything, and are usually killed if they try to seriously organize independently. In other words, it's "red bureaucracy," with bureaucrats using the state as an apparatus to accumulate power and wealth, thereby becoming the new bourgeosie) which will most likely devolve into totalitarianism (China, USSR, etc).

The closest thing I can imagine to socialist minarchism would be a left-libertarian party gaining power but promising not to interfere in the workings of society, refusing to use police and the military (perhaps dissolving them) for private property protection and allowing workers to organize in the workplace democratically. Of course, this is theoretical; I can't imagine a party gaining power within an oppressive system, only to relinquish the power.

[Schrödinger's Cat]

Would such a thing be possible? Or are many so-called anarchists and other assorted "libertarian" socialists already basically left-minarchists, opposed to centralized Leninism but not quite ready to call themselves anarchists?

Luxemburg and many Germanic socialists at the time were libertarian, non-anarchist Marxists.

Council communism is what you're looking for. With a libertarian socialist government, it's theorized that workers will form democratic worker councils mostly independent from the state if rigid property distinctions aren't enforced. "Laissez faire" planned socialism, ha.


Or are many so-called anarchists and other assorted "libertarian" socialists already basically left-minarchistsWell, in general most people who identify as anarchists aren't proponents of minarchy, but you won't find any complaints if a minarchist socialist state came into existence. I'm a little bit Marxist on this subject. I think we may very well pass through a minarchist state, but it won't came about through a vanguard party.