| Normchacho said:
A Libertarian Socialist would be someone who believes that both the means of production, and political power should be controlled by the people as a whole. |
I think this definition is too restrictive to a particular type of libertarian socialism (particularly communism.) A syndicalist, mutualist, and especially an individualist does not think the people as a whole should control a particular means of production, for example. The syndicalist wants the workers via trade-unions (syndicates) to control the means of production. The mutualist thinks everybody should ideally have access to a means of production, but the people "as a whole" don't necessarily control everything. The individualist would be even more antagonistic to your definition, as obviously the most extreme individualists prefer a contractual artisan society. All of these fall under "socialism" and all are libertarian.
I think only communists and collectivists would agree with your definition, which while they fall under the libertarian-socialist umbrella, they are only a subset of the whole.
