Libertarian socialism

Ayn Rand is also noted for her contributions to libertarian philosophy. She is seen as the most influential figure to those who have adopted libertarian styled thinking. Her famous work The Fountainhead is an allegory of one of the larges libertarian ideas. As libertarians, the belief that you are under complete ownership of yourself is a hallmark. There should not be any reason in the world that you are compelled to sacrifice your time unless you are compelled to do so. Consequent to this thought, we are a race that is only to exist for ourselves. Her greatest contribution was her idea that we live in an inegalitarian society, we are not all equal to each other. Though we should have a level playing field, we are not all inherently equal.…

In Requiem for the American Dream, Noam Chomsky describes the vicious cycle of how concentration of wealth supplies concentration of power, and the political power turns into legislation which concentrates more wealth, and so on, and so on. Chomsky talks about how people will never be able to reach the American Dream. People will never reach the American Dream because of what Chomsky stated in his documentary, which is because of the wealth of nations, the attack on solidarity, and marginalize…

Anarchists are standing up for many movements that they find unsuitable. Most of them disagree with the way the government is running society. In fact, they believe that society does not need the government at all. The rules they are coming up with are their way of protecting themselves and the rich. How about the poor? Do some of them tend to steal because they are not receiving help from the government? Are people getting involve in illegal activities because the state does not approve it but…

When you think of the term ‘anarchist’, you would imagine some crazy person who’s against the status quo and wants to destroy society as we know it. Someone who sets fires to random buildings all the time and yells their message of overthrowing the only thing keeping society together to the uninterested passerby. A person whose ideas are just so obscure that they couldn’t possibly work in a modern society. Emma Goldman was one of these labeled ‘anarchists’, who supported equality for women,…

Libertarians, believe that while they're unequivocally responsible for any evils they may inflict on others, regardless of what the cercumstances my be that they owe those people compenstation. However, They also allege that there is no conceivable argument that we owe something, as matter of general duty to those whom we have not wronged. A good generalization of Libertarians is that they 'would go as far as abolishing the state welfair scheames helping to house, feed, provied insurance…

"There is nothing to take a man 's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else." (Anthem). There are many different definitions of freedom and freedom means different things to every individual person. For that reason, I think that is why there are different groups, such as the Libertarian’s and Rawlsian. Both of these groups have principles that relate to freedom, but just like every individual they have the…

555). And was officially formed on December 11, 1971, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Libertarians have a unique stand on their policies and at the same time their policies are broad enough to get the public support, they are not the traditional left or right, but they have a unique stand where they are for total individual liberties like pro-drug legalization, pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-home schooling, pro-gun rights, etc. And at the same time there are for total economic freedom…

sector can still exist even under a democratic socialism economic system. But, all the major indudstrics and corporations are owned by the state instead of private citizens, which is how our government is now. So , with the government in charge of major industries and corporations it would make them responsible for planning and directing the economy. Democratic socialism would then shift decisions from private to public institutions. Decisions concerning investments, prices, and wages would be…

Chapter Six: Socialism The most prevalent antithesis to capitalism is, of course, socialism. While there exist many forms of socialism, economically, they all rely primarily on social ownership and control over capital production and management of the economy to the state, cooperative enterprises, or even a semblance of citizen ownership ( I say semblance because, let’s face it, once the state decides where ownership lies, it’s all over for you). The participating society (again, the semblance…

number lines marked with values from -10 to +10, which references their respective ideology. This grid is very similar to the grid used in mathematics for plotting points and drawing functions. But instead of simply referencing values for “x” and “y”, however, one’s position on each axis reflects one’s position on different political issues. The X-axis represents economic freedom, and ranges from Communism and Socialism on the far left with a value of -10 to unrestrained…