The term "libertarian socialist" is only an oxymoron, if you use "socialist" as libertarians do. Libertarians use the term usually to mean a coercive collectivi

The term "libertarian socialist" is only an oxymoron, if you use "socialist" as libertarians do. Libertarians use the term usually to mean a coercive collectivist government, which is only part of some socialist schools. (Mainly the Stalinist-Leninist one the Soviet Union did ascribe to.) On the other hand, the central ideas of Marxism is ( translated to libertarian language), that the relationship between a worker and his employer is a coercive one and that the worker may (will) not be able to choose a non coercive employer. So Libertarian and Marxists thought, both try to limit coercion, and therefore the ideologies are actually quite compatible.