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What is Libertarian Socialism? - Myles - 03-29-2014 03:48 AM
How is it different to democratic socialism.?
- The Great Superpie - 03-29-2014 04:02 AM
What is a penisgina?
Same analogy as your question
- Kenny - 03-29-2014 04:10 AM
Libertarian Socialism is synonymous with Anarchism in most cases, a stateless society where the means of production is controlled by the workers rather than the state (like in the Soviet Union, which was state capitalist not socialist) or private ownership like we have in the United States and most of the world.
Money could possibly exist like in Mutualism, which is a market socialist school of libertarian socialism or it might not such as with Anarcho-Communism.
Factories would be run democratically by the people that work there, like worker co-operatives that exist under capitialism.
All examples of genuine socialism (not a capitalist welfare states like Sweden, or state capitalism like in the Soviet Union) were libertarian socialist, like Revolutionary Catalonia or Anarchist Ukraine.
The difference between democratic socialism and libertarian socialism is that democratic socialists believe in a state while libertarian socialists do not.
Democratic socialism is not to be confused with social democracy, which is capitalism with heavy regulation and a strong welfare state, democratic socialists believe in workers control.
Ita also worth noting that the first person to call themselves a libertarian was a French anarcho-communist, and only in the United States does libertarian mean laissez-faire capitalism, libertarianism originally meant anarchism.
Some would say its a oxymoron but as I've said before socialism is workers' control not government control or ownership.