Think of “libertarian socialism” in contrast to the more common (authoritarian) socialism. As I understand, Libertarian Socialism is a very broad umbrella that covers ideologies promoting non-coercive, cooperative societies (e.g. all the actual forms of anarchism, solarpunk).

When you hear most people speak of socialism they typically mean some form or fusion of authoritarian socialism – state forced cooperative society.

These are in contrast of course to the coercive and exploitative based societies (capitalism, etc) currently found in virtually every state.

edit: I meant this as a response to a comment but oh well

Also, fuck Discord it’s corporate trash