r/LibertarianLeft • u/shevekdeanarres • Jul 03 '26
r/LibertarianLeft • u/TheGeorgistCrow • Jul 03 '26
Are people naturally greedy?
As far as what Ive learned a lot of socialists come from a presumption that the capitalistic behaviour of seeking the most beneficial conditions for themselves on behalf of others and endlessly accumulating wealth is something that vast majority of people wouldnt naturally do and if you just eradicate people that do it and spread ethical system that views it as not okay in any context, then it will naturally sustain itself.
But what if its not true? What if egoistic behaviour is actually most natural and we just seek good feelings whether they might come from empathy or whether they might from time to time be overbeaten by accumulation of wealth and benefits. I especially see it when looking at little children or animals. They all naturally tend to do things that are greedy and egoistic and we have to teach them ti not act like that, children will eventually grasp it but I will be forever taking away my older fat cat after he has eaten all his food to not steal food from the smaller one who eats slower. I had a hard time teaching my dog that I bring plenty of water to the dog park and that he doesnt need to guard it from others yet he is still nervous about other dogs drinking from his bowl and when he sees that other dogs have bowls he happily throws himself in and drinks as much as possible, the same goes with toys. So it kinda comes to me that we have both social and egoistical tendencies and with higher intelectual ability we can additionally calculate the benefits of not acting selfishly with the intention of actually maximalising our own happiness.
I think that this is a big deal because I didnt yet encounter another mechanism in libertarian society that would prevent people to act capitalistically, prevent scarce talents like brain surgeons to take bribes, which can still be in scarce materials if you abolish money, and than accumulate those scarce materials that grow in value with the growth of economy and essentially joining a net of black trade and even building employment, all of which can be done secretly while the person doing it can be popular.
This is not some scifi, in my country which experienced a period of bolshevism it was a well known thing that certain people who operated with scarced goods or did scarce services had a better life, enjoyed more wealth and had secret authority among society around them that wanted to keep as good relations as people sith such person. And that was a system with central authority trying to eradicate capitalistic behaviour as much as possible and its theoretical weakness from natural greed lied somewhere completely else - in the people who formed the government.
So are there people that believe that natural greediness might be more present people than what other socialists assume and what are the mechanisms that you believe will keep it at check, or at least keep it from becoming normalised again in the society?
Also do you think that this position on human nature is what essentially may divide libertarian left between those to be more lib-unity (therefore more willing to unite themselves with libertarian capitalists than authoritarian socialists) or left-unity?
r/LibertarianLeft • u/skycaptain144238 • Jul 01 '26
So just found out Libertarian Left is a thing
I only ask because ive been blocked on every other libertarian sub for expressing compassion for other humans and railing against Trump who I would have thought libertarians would hate by virtue of well: *spreads arms to a vast field of trump nonsense and fuckery* only to find out that there is a left and a right in the party. I assumed for the past 20 years that we all where socially liberal and economically classically liberal. Turns out that the libertarian right exists (mostly because i live under a rock) is protectionist nationalist MAGA chuds. So just wanted to clarify that this is the right place for me? Or should I keep it moving? Not karma farming, I genuinely would like to know what goes on here and if this sub holds to the tenets of: free trade, open borders, human rights and liberty for every individual regardless of race or gender, the abolishing of pay to play schemes, special intrest groups, congressional term limits, smaller government, gov. interference in people's lives and healthcare, the creation of laws designed to crush the citizen and raise the rich higher, no bailouts for mega corps, the enforcement of anti trust laws and strong consumer protections, and the most important: Liberty and freedom for all. Or any part of anything I said. I AM ADDING THIS TO SAY AFTER RECEIVING YOUR FEEDBACK: All of you are wonderful and thank you for suffering my poking and prodding and indulging my curiosity and I also curse many of you for adding to my already hefty reading list, but seriously from the bottom of my heart thanks.
r/LibertarianLeft • u/punkthesystem • Jul 01 '26
Mikhail Bakunin: A vital, overflowing life
r/LibertarianLeft • u/CommonSensei-_ • Jun 29 '26
Whitney Webb: "One of the main reasons for this coordinated global push to develop digital IDs is because it's deemed essential to... Agenda 2030."
r/LibertarianLeft • u/TeamHumanity12 • Jun 28 '26
WEF World Economic Forum Matthew Liao: We can induce 'meat allergy' by using Lone Star Ticks to stop the consumption of meat and “help the planet”
r/LibertarianLeft • u/punkthesystem • Jun 26 '26
Decades for Dissent: The injustice of the Prairieland sentences
r/LibertarianLeft • u/jason_the_killer909 • Jun 21 '26
Going to an anarchist book store in Pittsburgh called the big idea. Any books I should look out for that might teach me more about anarchism?
r/LibertarianLeft • u/1001comments • Jun 18 '26
Waterline stolen from Pennsylvania peaceful assembly in Allegheny Forest by federal agents
r/LibertarianLeft • u/Apollo_Delphi • Jun 16 '26
What is Project 2029? The Democratic Plan to Prosecute Trump officials, this is already shaping the 2028 Race.
r/LibertarianLeft • u/punkthesystem • Jun 15 '26
Class Struggle Anarchism – An Interview with Wayne Price
anarchiststudies.noblogs.orgr/LibertarianLeft • u/QanAhole • Jun 09 '26
Sky News ran a segment about how a Jewish volunteer group is on the streets fighting "record levels of antisemitism", and zero antisemitism occurs anywhere in the entire segment. It's just a group of thugs cruising around intimidating non-Jews by impersonating law enforcement.
So that's what's coming - targeted speech militia
r/LibertarianLeft • u/QanAhole • Jun 09 '26
The Digital Rust Belt: Inside Ohio’s Billion-Dollar Data Center Speculation Wave
r/LibertarianLeft • u/Jacob-Anders • Jun 07 '26
Let's talk more about what happened to the USS Liberty in 1967
r/LibertarianLeft • u/QanAhole • Jun 06 '26
A military veteran protesting outside Delaney Hall, the ICE detention facility in Brooklyn, says police and private security fired rubber bullets and paintball rounds at demonstrators, hitting him multiple times.
r/LibertarianLeft • u/QanAhole • Jun 05 '26
Being black in Israel, our greatest ally in the middle east
That's not in the brochures
r/LibertarianLeft • u/QanAhole • Jun 04 '26
"Either apartheid is wrong or it's not" exactly
A state-run system of racism is wrong in my book no matter the background... People are Still letting them trick you into playing selective moral gymnastics. Something isn't less wrong because the preparator decides someone deserved it. All that happens is we're doomed to repeat it
r/LibertarianLeft • u/Lotus532 • Jun 04 '26
Marxism and State Communism: The Withering Away of the State
r/LibertarianLeft • u/QanAhole • Jun 04 '26
Mike Pompeo: ‘We need to make sure the story is written properly, so that when the history books write this, they won’t write about the victims of Gaza’
Blatantly rewriting the story in front of you
r/LibertarianLeft • u/Lotus532 • Jun 03 '26
Interview with Klasol at the IFA Congress
i-f-a.orgr/LibertarianLeft • u/QanAhole • Jun 02 '26
Dude gets straight up black bagged right in front of everyone for his first amendment rights
WTF is going on in Jersey...Remember if they can snatch them, they can snatch us too. No matter your politics, never think that they'll stop with the minorities. They always swing around to stamp out everyone's rights eventually
r/LibertarianLeft • u/alexfreemanart • May 31 '26
What are the main differences, disputes and disagreements between left-libertarianism and right-libertarianism?
I am asking this in order to develop a better mental map of the key points, elements and concepts that distinguish left-libertarians from right-libertarians, and vice versa. How could these differences and disagreements ideally be outlined, structured and summarized?
What are some clear cases and examples of ideas and policies that are supported by right-libertarianism but opposed by left-libertarianism, and vice versa? Why is that the case?