That’s what those on the Left would have you believe. Since anything remotely outside their party’s status quo is ignorantly called right wing. But there are multiple iterations of Libertarianism, which themselves fall within a left/right dichotomy. For example, there is Libertarian Socialism, who’s values pull largely from the Left. Then you have the more right-leaning Anarcho Capitalist. But what these varying flavors of Libertarianism have in common is mostly all are anti-state and centrist.
Libertarian Socialism has little to do with US libertarians. The term was openly stolen for the Right. The intellectual history is completely separate.
Murray Rothbard: "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… "
@glowie@daisyKutter Anarcho Capitalist is an oximoron. You can’t separate the no-state part from the everyone must be equal in every aspect of the society part.
As an uneducated european I thought they were closely related, can you please explain?
That’s what those on the Left would have you believe. Since anything remotely outside their party’s status quo is ignorantly called right wing. But there are multiple iterations of Libertarianism, which themselves fall within a left/right dichotomy. For example, there is Libertarian Socialism, who’s values pull largely from the Left. Then you have the more right-leaning Anarcho Capitalist. But what these varying flavors of Libertarianism have in common is mostly all are anti-state and centrist.
Libertarian Socialism has little to do with US libertarians. The term was openly stolen for the Right. The intellectual history is completely separate.
Murray Rothbard: "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… "
@glowie @daisyKutter
Anarcho Capitalistis an oximoron. You can’t separate the no-state part from theeveryone must be equal in every aspect of the society part.So, basically centrist anti-establishment?