“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...” - Murray Rothbard
Rothbard was a far-right Austrian School economist and the founder of "anarcho"-capitalism.
Wasn't there some economist or something who hijacked the word libertarian and warped it's original meaning on purpose?
Rothbard, wasn't it?
More like Rothbad
Roth-Bard, but all his poems are fucking terrible
Yeah I think that's it!
“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...” - Murray Rothbard
Rothbard was a far-right Austrian School economist and the founder of "anarcho"-capitalism.
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