• PRW@mastodon.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    @swlabr If by ‘recent’ you mean ‘since the foundation of the Libertarian Party’. Libertarians were all-in for Reagan, their poster boy Ron Paul caucused with the GOP, etc etc etc.

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      1 year ago

      Rothbard deliberately and consciously stole the term from anarchists for his new right-wing version, anarchocapitalism.

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      1 year ago

      Yes that’s more or less what I meant. I am not a pro historian or anything but libertarianism pre-dates the libertarian party. My understanding is that the origins of libertarianism only bear a passing resemblance to the modern formulation.

      (If it is sounding like I am defending libertarianism just fucking kill me)