Peter Vallentyne
http://philpapers.org/s/Peter%20Vallentyne (left libertarian),
Michael Otsuka
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctymio (left libertarian), even much of Noam Chomsky (he has called his libertarian socialism an anarchist philosophy)
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"Political rights do not originate in parliaments; they are, rather, forced upon parliaments from without. And even their enactment into law has for a long time been no guarantee of their security. Just as the employers always try to nullify every concession they had made to labor as soon as opportunity offered, as soon as any signs of weakness were observable in the workers' organizations, so governments also are always inclined to restrict or to abrogate completely rights and freedoms that have been achieved if they imagine that the people will put up no resistance.
Even in those countries where such things as freedom of the press, right of assembly, right of combination, and the like have long existed, governments are constantly trying to restrict those rights or to reinterpret them by juridical hair-splitting. Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace .
Where this is not the case, there is no help in any parliamentary Opposition or any Platonic appeals to the constitution."
– Rudolf Rocker, Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory & Practice, 1947
http://www.iwa-ait.org /
http://www.iww.org /
http://workersolidarity.org /
other links to left forms of democratic workplaces and social structuring
"The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm" by David Ellerman
http://www.ellerman.org/Davids-Stuff/Books/demofirm.doc "Libertarianism Without Inequality" by Michael Otsuka (free PDF)
http://ebookee.org/go/?u=http://depositfiles.com/files/m0uj43n84Why Left-Libertarianism Is Not Incoherent, Indeterminate, or Irrelevant: A Reply to Fried
PETER VALLENTYNE,
HILLEL STEINER, AND
MICHAEL OTSUKA
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctymio/leftlibP&PA.pdf http://newpol.org /
New Politics, published since 1986 as a semi-annual, follows in the tradition established in its first series (1961-1978) as an independent socialist forum for dialogue and debate on the left. It is committed to the advancement of the peace and anti-intervention movements. It stands in opposition to all forms of imperialism, and is uncompromising in its defense of feminism and affirmative action. In our pages there is broad coverage of labor and social movements, the international scene, as well as emphasis on cultural and intellectual history.
Above all, New Politics insists on the centrality of democracy to socialism and on the need to rely on mass movements from below for progressive social transformation.
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One variant of contemporary left-libertarianism affirms the classical liberal and libertarian idea of self-ownership, while rooting a robust version of economic egalitarianism in this idea. It combines the conventional libertarian idea of self-ownership with unconventional views regarding the ownership of land and natural resources (e.g. those of Henry George), residual claimancy vis-à-vis the firm, or both.
http://praxeology.net/all-left.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism here are some more new left scholars that do not fall into the camp of easy-labeling
Hillel Steiner
http://philpapers.org/profile/2771 Philippe Van Parijs
http://www.uclouvain.be/en-11688.html David Ellerman
http://philpapers.org/s/David%20Ellerman Antonio Negri
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/antonio-negri/biography/------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Autonomism
http://www.autonomism.com/autonomism/"A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will, can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases. The result -- and a natural one -- has been that we have had governments, State and national, devoted to nearly every grade and species of crime that governments have ever practised upon their victims; and these crimes have culminated in a war that has cost a million of lives; a war carried on, upon one side, for chattel slavery, and on the other for political slavery; upon neither for liberty, justice, or truth. And these crimes have been committed, and this war waged, by men, and the descendants of men, who, less than a hundred years ago, said that all men were equal, and could owe neither service to individuals, nor allegiance to governments, except with their own consent."
Lysander Spooner
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