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Criticisms of left-libertarianism have come from both the right and left alike. Right-libertarians like Robert Nozick hold that self-ownership and property acquisition need not meet egalitarian standards, they must merely follow the Lockean idea of not worsening the situation of others. [[Gerald Cohen]], an [[Analytical Marxism|Analytical Marxist]] philosopher, has extensively criticized left-libertarianism's virtues of self-ownership and equality. In his ''Self-ownership, Freedom, and Equality'', Cohen claims that any system that takes equality and its enforcement seriously is not consistent with the robust freedom and full self-ownership of libertarian thought. [[Tom G. Palmer]] of the Cato Institute has responded to Cohen's critique in ''Critical Review'' [http://www.tomgpalmer.com/papers/palmer-cohen-cr-v12n3.pdf] and has provided a guide to the literature criticizing libertarianism in his bibliographical review essay on "The Literature of Liberty" in ''The Libertarian Reader'', ed. David Boaz. [http://www.theihs.org/pdf/subcategories/90.pdf] | Criticisms of left-libertarianism have come from both the right and left alike. Right-libertarians like Robert Nozick hold that self-ownership and property acquisition need not meet egalitarian standards, they must merely follow the Lockean idea of not worsening the situation of others. [[Gerald Cohen]], an [[Analytical Marxism|Analytical Marxist]] philosopher, has extensively criticized left-libertarianism's virtues of self-ownership and equality. In his ''Self-ownership, Freedom, and Equality'', Cohen claims that any system that takes equality and its enforcement seriously is not consistent with the robust freedom and full self-ownership of libertarian thought. [[Tom G. Palmer]] of the Cato Institute has responded to Cohen's critique in ''Critical Review'' [http://www.tomgpalmer.com/papers/palmer-cohen-cr-v12n3.pdf] and has provided a guide to the literature criticizing libertarianism in his bibliographical review essay on "The Literature of Liberty" in ''The Libertarian Reader'', ed. David Boaz. [http://www.theihs.org/pdf/subcategories/90.pdf] | ||
"Left-libertarianism" also refers to a radical, anti-corporate tendency within libertarianism that often takes the "left" side of issues such as immigration and intellectual property, allies itself more with the traditional left than the traditional right, and emphasizes the revolutionary and socially equalizing potential of the free market. Left-libertarianism, in this sense, is almost uniformly anarchist and often incorporates less absolutist conceptions of property such as mutualism and Georgism. | |||
===Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy=== | ===Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy=== | ||