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I'm sorry, but you are, perhaps unwittingly, spreading disinformation. The political term "libertarian" was coined by an anarcho-communist, to evade a French ba
by calibraxis 15y ago
I'm sorry, but you are, perhaps unwittingly, spreading disinformation. The political term "libertarian" was coined by an anarcho-communist, to evade a French ban on anarchist literature in 1857. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Etymology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Etymology) About a century later, some US right-wingers appropriated the term to mean an extreme form of capitalism.
In a culture which is indoctrinated so deeply that words can't even mean what they mean, it's little wonder why we stumble so badly despite careful explanations of the anarchist movement's history and goals, and despite the internet at our fingertips. No wonder why some will argue so aggressively, rather than simply googling and humbly asking questions to relieve their ignorance. Anarchism is not some set of axioms, nor is it defined by some dictionary. It is a social movement.