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Title: What We Stand For Author: Libertarian League Date: 1963 Language: en Topics: libertarian socialism, Views & Comments, principles Source: Retrieved on 8th June 2022 from https://radicalarchives.org/2010/05/11/libertarian-league-manifesto/ Notes: From View and Comments, #45 (Fall 1963), back cover [p 26].
The “free” world is not free; the “communist” world is not communist. We
reject both: one is becoming totalitarian; the other is already so.
Their current power structure leads inexorably to atomic war and the
probable destruction of the human race.
We charge that both systems engender servitude. Pseudo-freedom based on
economic slavery is no better than pseudo-freedom based on political
slavery.
The monopoly of power which is the state must be eliminated. Government
itself, as well as its underlying institutions, perpetuates war,
oppression, corruption, exploitation, and misery.
We advocate a world-wide society of communities and councils based on
cooperation and free agreement from the bottom (federalism) instead of
coercion and domination from the top (centralism). Regimentation of
people must be replaced by regulation of things.
Freedom without socialism is chaotic, but socialism without freedom is
despotic. Libertarianism is free socialism.