(September 15, 2010 at 2:19 pm)Tiberius Wrote:(September 15, 2010 at 2:02 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: So Gandhi was 'to the left and down a bit', doesnt trip off the tongue quite as easily does it.Or "left libertarian", which slips off the tongue a bit better. I think at the height he is, you could call him "centre left" and be a bit more accurate.
Seems like a misnomer, what exactly was "libertarian" about Ghandi?
I would call him a left liberal. Libertarian(ism) has baggage explicitly implies free-market leaning ideology.
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