ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on "self-ownership" may not be able to do the work that left-libertarians assign it, any more than it can do the cognate work assigned by the right. It also focuses on the robust interpretation of the Lockean proviso that left-libertarians embrace to distance themselves from the right assumes a view of fairness that threatens to eliminate the distinction between left-libertarianism and more conventional strains of egalitarianism. The chapter suggests that left-libertarians' choice to justify equality by reference to liberty may raise some strategic concerns as well. The lessons of the functionalist revolution in property rights have not been entirely lost on libertarians, right or left. Hence the doubt expressed earlier: whether the robust interpretation left-libertarians give the proviso can ultimately be walled off from more familiar strains of liberal egalitarianism.
