Les republicains du 19e siecle etaient-ils des libertariens de gauche? L'exemple d'Auguste et Leon Walras

In: Raisons politiques: études de pensée politique, Heft 3, S. 93-108

Abstract

Left-libertarianism combines the principle of self-ownership with that of equal access to natural resources. This article looks at one branch of left-libertarianism, passed over by the movement's current mainstream, which holds that natural resources should not be appropriated by individuals but should remain state property. In 19th-century France, Leon Walras was a leading exponent of this view, which he inherited from his father, Auguste. The Walrases argued that public land ownership was the foundation of individual citizenship & the guarantee of liberty, & hence preferable to any form of individual appropriation of land. Adapted from the source document.