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I'm not sure it really translates - it's a post-socialist phenomenon, and socialism still seems like a swearword your side of the pond. Take issues like gun co
by adw 17y ago
I'm not sure it really translates - it's a post-socialist phenomenon, and socialism still seems like a swearword your side of the pond.
Take issues like gun control, social welfare, environmentalism... the modern European hard left is, in general, strongly in favour of all of the above. Their platform's libertarian in that it's mostly against government intervention in personal lives, and therefore pro-marriage equality, drug decriminalisation, liberalisation of copyright, etc etc etc. You'll find a lot of anti-globalisation fellow travellers too.
The influences are much more things like anarcho-syndicalism, Christiania (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania), that kind of thing.
- emmett 17y agoI think we're in total agreement. Libertarians share platforms with both the left and the right; we call them "left-libertarians" when they find themselves mostly voting in alignment with the left, and "right-libertarians" when they find themselves mostly voting in agreement with the right. European libertarians, coming from the background you describe, much more often find themselves on the left than the right.