Perhaps these authors are "libertarian socialists," because they put so
much emphasis on "freedom":
"In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class
antagonisms, we shall have an association, in which the free development
of each is the condition for the free development of all."
Jim Devine, e-mail: jdevine@xxxxxxx
web: http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine/
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>
> >I've heard Chomsky calls himself a libertarian socialist. Didn't
> confirm
> >that rumor on the brief scan of google results, but I suspect he's
> a good
> >indicator of what people mean by the phrase.
> >
> >http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22libertarian+socialist%22+ch
> omsky&btnG=Google+Search
>
> I myself associate Chomsky with libertarian socialism, but what's
> puzzling
> is that Hahnel, one of his devotees, *rejects* it. He says that it
> and
> social democracy failed. Maybe there's no point in reading too much
> into
> this. Perhaps we're dealing with an incompetent editor.
>
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