RE: Property as Theft: The Libertarian Socialist Critique of Property (Part 1)

[brockstory]

free markets are the best way to make sure that the people get what they want land should be owned by individuals just like native Americans sure they were a group but they owned it as a group. The market benefits everyone when its left to the people to voluntarily decide whats best for them.

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[sylph]

Yes. I personally like the idea of having a monetary system and the concept of the free market. I sometimes argue with anarcho-communists/communists/etc about the necessity of money and the benefit of the market system, which are particularly apparent when we consider scarce luxury goods that are in demands. However, there's a lot of places where we can go from there as far as details and implementation go.

Some people think a market is freer when it allows continual exploitations of labor forces by landlords/etc and through monopolization of natural resources, while left-libertarians (e.g. leftist geolibertarians, bleeding heart libertarians, etc) believes that's not as free of a market. They also tend to believe that people are more deserving of being rewarded for their labor, rather than when they profit from exploiting others. :)

"Libertarian government policy therefore consists of these elements: 1) No intervention in the affairs of other countries; 2) A pure free market with no restrictions on peaceful and honest production, exchange, and consumption; 3) full civil liberties, with no crimes unless there are victims who have been invaded; 4) Public finance from user fees, pollution charges, and very limited taxation, if any.
Geoism is the philosophy of sharing the benefits of the land (geo), while respecting the equal self-ownership of persons. Self-ownership implies that one owns one’s body and life, and therefore one’s labor and wages and the products of labor. These should be unrestricted and untaxed, and traded without taxation or restriction. The benefits of land have their economic manifestation as rent, which can be shared either as public revenues, community financing, or as dividends to the members of a community. Geoism draws much of its inspiration from the thought of the economist and social reformer, Henry George. It is thus often called “Georgism,” although the basic ideas were present long before George."
http://left-liberty.net/?p=309

Geolibertarianism is about self-ownership and having a free-market economy. It's about how people should not be rewarded for monopolizing natural resources, but about the product of their own labor. It's about how they should be free to spend the money that they acquired through labor rather than exploitation as they see fit, as long as it doesn't harm others:
https://sites.google.com/site/justindkeith/home/geolibertarian-faq