[jcranmer]

I'd say he's more communist, since he seems to believe that private property just shouldn't exist. Libertarians by contrast would tend more on the scale of "you should be able to do whatever you want with your private property."

[icebraining]

Some argue that copyright undermines private property: https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-2

[wwright]

The latter is what he wants. He is happy for people to charge for software, but he advocates that the owner must have full control.

[claudiawerner]

> since he seems to believe that private property just shouldn't exist

Although I'm sympathetic to that idea myself, that just isn't true in Stallman's case. He's a Bernie/Stein voter and he's read something by Emma Goldman, but I think that's the extent of his "lefty" gland.