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Originally Posted by roughbeast
Corbyn is left and libertarian. He supports worker's rights, environmental protection, devolution of power to communities, workers on company boards, equal opportunities for all etc . You can't get much more libertarian than that.
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How can government intervene so much in society and then claim to be libertarian? I am not against many of those things but they're not libertarian at all. They require the government to regulate different areas of society. Only the devolution of power would be something a libertarian would support there. Corbyn is almost the polar opposite of a libertarian.
Although libertarianism isn't the same as liberal. I don't think we have much of a tradition of it in the UK.
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Since when was trade protectionism a left wing characteristic? Protectionism is an authoritarian/populist trait adopted by certain kinds of both the left and the right, e.g. Nazi Germany, Trump's America now and Soviet Russia.
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Quote often. Protectionism is often advocated by some on the left who are skeptical of free trade, believing it favours mega-corporations and the expense of workers.
Although I don't think we disagree much here. I think only in that prior to Trump you didn't see many Conservatives advocating against free-trade in the Western Worlds (as far as I am aware).