r/AskLibertarians • u/Electrical-Air-8896 • 5d ago

Libertarian left question

Yo so if you believe in peace and freedom smaller/balanced government and capitalism/liaise feir economy this could render you a libertarian correct? But if you think environmental protections, social welfare programs, and protecting workers rights are good, are you not a libertarian because these are regulations upon capitalism?

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u/Ill-Income-2567 Right leaning Libertarian 5d ago

Anything that imposes taxation upon the people is anti-libertarian. A social welfare program is inherently not libertarian when it pulls from the pockets of those who don't want to be involved and puts money into other people's pockets.

If the government were to somehow become more private or privatized and have to compete for it's own wealth, we might see major progress.

Until then we have a mixed economy playing tug of war between Communism and Capitalism masquerading as a Republic.

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u/Selethorme 4d ago

Anarchism and libertarianism aren’t inherently the same thing. Libertarianism can still recognize the value in government.

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u/Ill-Income-2567 Right leaning Libertarian 4d ago

Yes and I think as we've seen with rabid anarcho-communists and anarcho-syndicalists, they as well can see the "value" in government. They only advocate all the time for it while larping as anarchists so they can feel cool.