Left-wing market anarchism, a form of
left-libertarianism,
individualist anarchism and
libertarian socialism, is associated with contemporary scholars such as
Kevin Carson,
Roderick T. Long, Charles Johnson, Brad Spangler,
Samuel Edward Konkin III, Sheldon Richman,
Chris Matthew Sciabarra, and
Gary Chartier, who stress the value of radically free markets, termed
freed markets to distinguish them from the common conception which these libertarians believe to be riddled with statist and capitalist privileges. Referred to as left-wing market anarchists or market-oriented left-libertarians, proponents of this approach strongly affirm the classical liberal ideas of
self-ownership and free markets, while maintaining that, taken to their logical conclusions, these ideas support
anti-capitalist,
anti-corporatist, anti-hierarchical, pro-labor positions in economics;
anti-imperialism in foreign policy; and thoroughly radical views regarding such cultural issues as gender, sexuality, and race.