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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton is a "populist leaning liberal" on the issues, [View all]BlindTiresias
(1,563 posts)Libertarianism as it understood via Mises, Hayek, Rothbard etc. But Chomsky is a left libertarian, for example. Libertarianism generally refers to how much authority governmental entities like the state should have over the citizenry, so a right libertarian thinks that corporate or some kind of business entity should have the supreme authority with the government acting as a weak binding actor of these interests. In contrast a left libertarian likely thinks that worker syndicates and democratic means of production should be supreme within a purely democratic structure that acts in the interests of these groups. They both clearly oppose a large degree of authority resting in the state but have very different models for how that should be accomplished.