Social
libertarianism is the belief in social liberty, i.e., individual
independence and communal autonomy from overarching government or state control.
Social
libertarianism reject the concentration of decision-making authority into distant, oligarchical, centralized bureaucracies - federal or monolithic - favoring instead the diffusion and localization of that decision-making authority.
Social libertarianism supports a political, social, and economic environment which allows voluntary accession to associations, but also permits a person to choose to remain free of restraint by society, except in cases in which an individual's claim of freedom interferes with another individual's right to be free from unwarranted, aggressive coercion or harm.
Social libertarianism regards free-market capitalism and democratic, communalistic socialism as equally conducive economic means towards the ends of generalistic liberation from tyranny.
Murray Bookchin's support of
decentralized, non-hierarchical communal autonomy, coupled with a belief in
individual liberty, indicates that he and his adherents ascribe to social
libertarianism.