Why do people think that libertarian socialism is an oxymoron when they haven't even read about it?
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While studying alternative economic systems under the College of Liberal Arts, in the department of Anthropology, I heard the term "Socialist Libertarian". It was defined as a person whose philosophy approved of more personal liberty than we currently have in the US, and less corporate or business liberty than we currently have in the US. Since all of the students taking that class were Americans, we could all identify with the restrictions on liberty that come from government, like marijuana.
One of my professors once said that if everyone in the US owned at least some stock in every public corporation, and that private corporations were small with only a few owners, that would come closest to the real practice of socialism. His belief was that Corporatism, like we have in the US now, was the result of businesses having way too much control over markets, over their employees, and over their customers. I agree with him. (And with you.)
Your average American voter doesn’t know the difference between a Political philosophy and an Economic system.
What’s more, most of them use very crude, connotative definitions of "Socialism" to being with.
The first response makes my case for me.
Shakespeare disparagingly said "Words, words, words." I, in the same spirit, say "Labels, labels, labels."