First, I learned a lot more about economics in general and public choice theory in particular. My own journey from far left to libertarian was complicated, but there are two large factors. Under communism, it’s just the opposite. That’s crazy. These positions sit upon one or more geometric axes that represent independent political dimensions. So "left-libertarian" in Political Compass means more or less "socialist or social-democrat on economics and permissive on most moral issues" - imagine a hippie. It is popular to label libertarianism as a right-wing doctrine. Likewise, they have Hillary Clinton on the right side of the spectrum for economic policy. This was a major “gestalt switch” with regard to social reality. And second, there is a subset of so-called “left-libertarian” theories. In 1850s Russia and America it was the leftists who were the economic libertarians advocating the abolition of … The Political Compass Reading List Libertarian Left Under capitalism, man exploits man. J.K.Galbraith

For one, on social (rather than economic) issues, libertarianism implies what are commonly considered left-wing views. The expressions political compass and political map are used to refer to the political spectrum as well, especially to popular two-dimensional models of it. He was a strident opponent of capitalism. American libertarians are "right-libertarian" on Political Compass. A political spectrum is a system to characterize and classify different political positions in relation to one another.

Needless to say, that’s nonsense.

Now he’s very libertarian on social issues, but squishy on economics.

As "left" and "right" categories dissolve and become increasingly meaningless on the American ideological scene, as young people, with the collapse of both the SDS-Left and the liberal "consensus," grope toward a new philosophy and a new orientation, right-libertarianism may ascend. Left-libertarianism has been getting a lot of buzz recently in the broader American libertarian community.

The term “left-libertarian” has been used many ways in American politics, and there seems to be some confusion within the libertarian community itself as to who left-libertarians actually are.

To understand this you have to understand what “libertarian” means in this context. But this is mistaken. – Brian Hellekin Jul 26 '18 at 1:56

But not nearly as nonsensical as Benito Mussolini being on the far right for economic policy. The dominant form of libertarianism (as found in the US) is an ideology based largely on Austrian School economics and Chicago School, or neoclassical, economics.The Austrian School relies on normative axioms, rather than hard empirical analysis, primarily concerned with what is ideal as opposed to "what is".

Some of my “far left” views survived, but were re-contextualized.