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Libertarian socialism
(sometimes called 
socialist anarchism
,
[1][2]
and sometimes
leftlibertarianism
[3]
 
[4]
 
) is a group of  political philosophiesthat aspire to create a society without political, economic, or socialhierarchies, i.e. a society in which all violent or coerciveinstitutions would be dissolved, and in their place every person would have free, equal access tothe tools of information and production.
[5]
This equality and freedom would be achieved through the abolition of authoritarian institutions that own and control productive means as private property,
[6]
so that direct control of thesemeansof productionand resources will be shared by society as a whole. Libertarian socialism alsoconstitutes a tendency of thought that informs the identification, criticism and practicaldismantling of illegitimate authority in all aspects of social life. Accordingly libertarian socialists believe that “the exercise of power in any institutionalized form – whether economic, political,religious, or sexual – brutalizes both the wielder of power and the one over whom it isexercised.”
[7]
Libertarian socialists place their hopes intrade unions,workers' councils,municipalities, citizens' assemblies, and other non- bureaucratic,decentralized means of direct democracy.
[8]
Manylibertarian socialists advocate doing away with the state altogether, seeing it as a bulwark of capitalist class rule,while others propose that a minimal, non-hierarchical version is unobjectionable.
[9]
Political philosophies commonly described as libertarian socialist include most varieties of anarchism (especiallyanarchist communism,anarchist collectivism,anarcho-syndicalism,
[10]
mutualism,
[11]
 social ecology,
[12]
 autonomismand council communism
 
).
[13]
Some writers uselibertarian socialism synonymously with anarchism
[14]
and in particular  socialist anarchism.
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