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Some people believe their personal liberty gives them the right to infringe on other people's personal liberty. Those people sometimes call themselves "libertar
by 24gttghh 8y ago
Some people believe their personal liberty gives them the right to infringe on other people's personal liberty. Those people sometimes call themselves "libertarians" in the US, when in reality they are anarcho-capitalists.
- kentrado 8y agoI think that's a gross misrepresentation of what they believe. I have talked to several of them and this is false. I lean more towards the socialist libertarian side, so I disagree with them on some things but your kind of discourse I don't think is very helpful.
- 24gttghh 8y agoI think the problem is people in the US co-opted the term Libertarianism from its traditional use for those on the "left" end of the political spectrum. Please see what I mean here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Prominent_currents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Prominent_curre... In my experience, libertarians in the US are of the "right" variety, and not so much the "left"