link i forgot to add before:
http://www.infoshop.org/faq/secI1.html "Isn't libertarian socialism an oxymoron?"
frankly i'm a little confused as to where exactly "90% Libertarian" puts you on the quiz's result sheet. are you centralist? left? right? 90% both personal and ecconomic freedoms? where i score is usually on the line between "liberal" and "Libertarian". "balance between equality and liberty" as i heard someone put it. thats 100% personal freedoms, 50% ecconomic freedoms.
as for working models... yeah, i keep looking for them too. does Cuba count? i'm quite certain there are hundreds all over the world on small scale. centralization also looks good on paper (not in my opinion though), but putting the two together has never mixed well.
from my point of view, democracy and capitalism do not mix well. infact, capitalist democracy is a greater oxymoron than libertarian socialist. Capitalism (particularly the heavy on authoritarianism type, like we have these days) fails us on so many levels, even on a consumer level!!!
i'd say it looks bad on paper, and works worse in practice. Socialism (even communism) looks good on paper, but just hasn't ever taken root for long enough to prove its worth. other forces always see socialism fall on it's ass.
state capitalism i don't consider socialism nor communism. russia wasn't communist in my mind for the duration of the cold war.
i don't like to even agree to disagree. sure, i agree we currently disagree, but we might not in the future, and so if i had agreed to disagree i would then be breaking that agreement by agreeing.
