ABSTRACT
Abstract. The traditional characterization of a libertarian society is that it is one which minimizes uncontracted enforcible restrictions on individual conduct. It is argued that, due to (i) the fact of necessarily finite natural resources, and (ii) the fact that human societies are composed of persons who are not exact contemporaries, i.e. of generations, this libertarian requirement can only be satisfied in a society which embodies at least one important conception of socialism.
