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1. Whenever I see the term “left-libertarian”, I wonder “in what way is their libertarianism defective, if measured by the Nolan Chart (World’s Smallest Political Quiz), compared to a 100/100 Nolan score?” .

   (which I have had for 45 years, from when I first realized I had always been a libertarian).

   As far as I can see, “left-libertarians” are generally 99% “left”, maybe 1% “libertarian”. I think they just use the term “libertarian” because it’s politically “sexy” to do so now. The way Marxists often call themselves “anarchists” because Communism failed so miserably from 1917 through today.

   The term “libertarian” was first used in the late 1700’s (see Wikipedia) and through much of the 1800’s. At THAT time, it was much “lefter” than the then-existing society and government. But since then, society and government have themselves gone ‘far left’. (which was a good thing, generally..).

   But the problem is that some fools seem to think that what was meant by “libertarian” has to CONTINUE to be “far left” compared to TODAY’S society and government. That would amount to be far, far “lefter” than it was in, say, 1850 or so.

   I say that’s nuts. I think of libertarianism, at 100/100 on the Nolan Chart as being “middle of the road”.

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2. If C4SS is going to be taken as the criterion of “left-libertarianism” (and at one time it was not a terrible proxy for that term), why not just Google “Waco” and “site:c4ss.org”) for left-libertarian views on the subject (like, say, this one or this one or this one)?

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   • Thanks for the links.

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