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"
pejorative term for libertarian
Most of the time, this word is used to describe the more right-wing ones, not to say the moderate ones are any better
And its worth noting that they gleefully appropriated a historically leftist term for their own reactionary aims:
-Rothbard, from "The Betrayal of the American Right"
So the term "libertarian" could've stayed fine, at least until
Vowsh came...