• explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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            4 months ago

            Seriously bro, look up the history of libertarianism! Even if it doesn’t change your mind about anything, it’s useful to understand the context.

            “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 N. Rothbard, The Betrayal Of The American Right