Articles by Gary Chartier
Advocating liberty means opposing the use of force to restrain peaceful, voluntary exchange. But it doesn’t have to mean calling a system of peaceful, voluntary exchange “capitalism.”
The current US debate about health-care funding can be understood as concerned with meeting the challenge of doing three things at once:
Left-libertarianism in the relevant sense is a position that is simultaneously leftist and libertarian. It features leftist commitments to:
Being a libertarian means opposing the use of force to restrain peaceful, voluntary exchange. That doesn’t mean it should be understood as involving support for capitalism.
Defenders of freed markets have good reason to identify their position as a species of “anti-capitalism.”[1] To explain why, I distinguish three potential meanings of “capitalism” before...
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