Forums of the Libertarian Left

[VanDoodah]

People calling themselves "left-libertarian" range from anarcho-syndicalists like Noam Chomsky to agorists like Samuel Edward Konkin III. I'm curious: how would the posters on these boards define left-libertarianism? Would mutualists and agorists consider communists and collectivists to be left-libertarians (or libertarians at all, for that matter), and vice versa?

Konkin described the left-libertarian movement as:

“activist, organization, publication or tendency which opposes parliamentarianism (electoral politics), defends Counter-Economists, and prefers alliances with radical and revolutionary tendencies to those with conservative ones. Best-known examples: Movement of the Libertarian Left (MLL), New Libertarian magazine.”

Is this an accurate description?

[RoyceChristian]

Why not? Communists can be just as left libertarian as Agorists or Mutualists. They have a preference for revolution methods, often seek to establish alternative networks that ween support of a Government controlled system (which is what Counter Economics is, essentially, the strategy as put forward by Konkin is nothing new to Anarchists, except that he refocussed attention upon 'building a new society within the shell of the old) and which destroys the legitimacy of the State while opposing authoritarianism in all walks of life. Essentially, Konkin summed this up in his own way.

[lordmetroid]

Historically viewed(from where the terminology left and right was first used), all anarchist are of the left. The libertarian left and anarchist left are two different groupings as of my understanding, the libertarian left are individualistic anarchists with humanitarian concerns high on the list of concerns and the anarchist left contains all of the set of libertarian left as well as the collectivistic anarchists.

There are the concepts I hold in my mind but why would my understandings be the valid one, if you feel the need to label yourself or others and what labels you want to use to what, well go ahead, in the end a label is not important.