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Good post. It's important to recognize that libertarianism is itself a diverse collection of philosophies, many of which resemble georgist, anarchist and even
by ende 12y ago
Good post. It's important to recognize that libertarianism is itself a diverse collection of philosophies, many of which resemble georgist, anarchist and even some strains of socialist thinking at their foundation. These variants all tend to differ on notions of property as first principal.
I think the 'traditional dogmatic libertarianism' you mention can best be described as paleoconservativism or something similar. It is one end of an extreme with complete disregard of property as the other extreme.
Georgist treatment of land as property is interesting because it doesn't actually deny land as private property, it just treats it as a negative externality to the commons and demands a Pigovian land value tax as recompense. This same philosophy can be extended to any tragedy of the commons, be it environmental, land use, radio bandwidth, etc. One may make property of these things, but at infinite cost for the privilege of such monopoly; a privilege that is guaranteed not by one's own right, but by the social contract of the state.