That doesn't sound very libertarian of them.
That doesn't sound very libertarian of them.
Also, unlike the socialists, the individualist and the free-market branches of libertarian thought never had mass support. A mere 4 decades before the US Libertarian party was founded, an explicitly, self-described libertarian communist organisation in just one country had well over a million members (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo).
It’s kind of tragic that American dominance of Internet culture has meant that even a decade ago, younger people that I spoke to were only aware of the more recent capitalist form of libertarianism.
They were also alert to the possibility of socialism becoming another oppressive orthodoxy; Emma Goldman is famous for saying 'if I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution' (although this is paraphrase of some wordier remark made in an interview). Murray Bookchin is probably the best-known modern exponent of these ideas.
The thing most/all self-identified libertarian socialists have in common is the perception that capitalism and the state are, if not one and the same, heavily reliant on one another, to the point that abolishing one without abolishing the other leaves in place the material conditions that make both inevitable. It ain't enough to replace state agencies with private corporations, because those corporations will simply become the state - nor is it enough to replace corporations with state agencies, because the bureaucrats running those agencies will simply become the new bourgeoisie or outright aristocracy.