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[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago

Most of the time, this word is used to describe the more right-wing ones, not to say the moderate ones are any better

[-] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

And its worth noting that they gleefully appropriated a historically leftist term for their own reactionary aims:

One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, 'our side,’ had captured a crucial word from the enemy... ‘Libertarians’ ...had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over...

-Rothbard, from "The Betrayal of the American Right" ancap-good

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago

So the term "libertarian" could've stayed fine, at least until funny-clown-hammer Vowsh came...

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