Quote Originally Posted by Raver View Post
You can be a left leaning or right leaning libertarian. It is pretty simple, a left leaning libertarian wants a small government, but with slightly more control over economics rather than social issues. A right leaning libertarian is vice versa. Contrast that to a left leaning authoritarian aka Democrat wanting a big government, but with slightly less control over social issues.

A right leaning authoritarian is vice versa. In the end, this is just slight differences. If you want to say that libertarians are mostly the same and just vary slightly on economic and social issues then that works too. It could apply to authoritarians aka the traditional two party system in a sense as well. In the end, Democrats and Republicans don't have dramatic differences IMO.
What you're saying with right and left leaning libertarian is far different though than the way people like Noam Chomsky use it. They think that you can have a form of socialism that fits under the umbrella of libertarianism and to me that just makes no sense.