Left-Rothbardianism
Left-Rothbardianism (also known as Left-Voluntarism) is a strain of left-wing market anarchism that aims to combine it with Rothbardian Anarcho-capitalism. Left-Rothbardianism gets heavily influences from both Austrian economists and left-wing market anarchists. Left-Rothbardianism also advocates for co-existence of mutualist and agorist ideals in a voluntaryist society and refers to Rothbard's homesteading principle for property rights to justify worker co-ops and other left-wing ideals.
Founder[edit]
Left-Rothbardianism was created by Roderick T. Long a market anarchist who is the founder of the Alliance of the Libertarian Left.
Differences from Anarcho-Capitalism[edit]
Even though Left-Rothbardianism and Anarcho-Capitalism are both based on Rothbard's homesteading principles and Austrian school there are some notable differences that make it different from vanilla anarcho-capitalism or libertarianism in general.
- Left-Rothbardians want to eliminate economic hierarchy
- Left-Rothbardians want worker co-ops with a self-determined right to their private property
- Left-Rothbardians oppose privatized education and healthcare, preferring mutual aid for those essential programs
- Left-Rothbardians oppose corporate property rights and the worker-boss hierarchy
- Left-Rothbardians advocate for the abolition of all intellectual property
