• VHS [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      pejorative term for libertarian

        • MiraculousMM [he/him, any]M
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          9 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