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by erikdstock 3907 days ago
As others have said the term 'libertarian' has historically and outside the USA had much more 'collectivist' connotations and early on bore much more resemblance to anarchist and communist movements- it recognized that controlling property and capital (or having it kept from you) was a factor in your individual liberty, could be used to force you to work, etc.

libertarian communist is to put it crassly an attempt to re-brand and re-merge the anarchist and socialist traditions (which are much more diverse than mao and stalin) and to remove the supposed schizm between libertarianism and communism. not to propose any single template but to stop taking for granted the current social/political/economic orders and explore new ways of organizing society, etc.