"Dialectical libertarianism" is the notion that freedom should be evaluated in terms of the whole system. A dialectical libertarian approach might conclude that a government granted monopoly with government price setting is more libertarian than that monopoly without that price setting. A limitation set on a special privilege may make the system more libertarian overall than the same system without that limitation. This is not, however, to say that the initial injustice (granting of a monopoly) is okay though. And formal recognition of the right to negative liberty without actually providing some degree of positive liberty makes society less libertarian overall.
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