I'd love to see those Hexbears have an answer for this!
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WTF is a Libertarian Socialist? Isn't that like an oxymoron?
Think Kropotkin-style anarchism. "Libertarian" used to refer to anarcho-communism--communism without states, hierarchies, and so on--until Rothbard and company started using it to mean laissez-faire capitalism during the 20th century. Some anarchists will still call themselves libertarian socialists or left-libertarians (not to be confused with "bleeding heart libertarians" or "liberaltarians," which are as awful as you'd expect).
Ahh Captured term from
Thanks.
Being an
and only knowing Libertarian as Ayn Rand and 
makes it a bit 
Yeah, that was their deliberate plan. Rothbard wrote:
He was successful to the point that very few people use it in the old sense anymore, unfortunately. This is especially true in
Probably worth pointing out that Hitler talks about doing the same thing with the word socialism.
Socialism with kid-diddling characteristics
Really it's "socialist economy with a significant emphasis on individual rights, e.g., free speech." It doesn't sound too bad until you (paraphrasing Parenti here) contemplate the difficulties of actually running a state, confronting capitalist attacks on your state, handling reactionary groups within your state, etc. Basically "do you let the fascists publish their newspaper the day after the revolution?"
It's often a superficially leftist label slapped over "DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DOOOOOOOOOOOO" no-veggies-at-dinner-no-bedtimes attitude.
Was that "no bedtimes" struggle session on twitter real?
I don't know, but threads like the one this one is sourced from make me wonder if it was.
Basic summary is its supposed to be Communism without as hard of a grip on the state and structures of society, "without the authoritarianism" as ideological of an explanation as that is.
So communism without even the conditions for socialism
Materialism, not even once.
What if we made a proletarian state without capitalism then implemented absolutely nothing to protect itself from the re-establishment of capital?
Sounds really hot for those with a perpetual losing fetish.
Thanks. I'm a silly
that only knew Libertarian from the 
"I got mine fuck you" types we have here.