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The terms anarchist and libertarian are both really misunderstood (or misused?) today. At least in the US, most people seem to think libertarians are anarchists
by _heimdall 3y ago
The terms anarchist and libertarian are both really misunderstood (or misused?) today. At least in the US, most people seem to think libertarians are anarchists and anarchists are terrorists that want to lice in The Purge.
I guess that does kind of make sense though. We also don't use the left/right spectrum the way most other cultures do and we've totally redefined what it means to be liberal or conservative.
Well looky there, I must be an anarchist too?
- jampekka 3y agoOriginally libertarians were anarchists, and they were roughly synonyms. And in many parts of Europe still are. In USA these terms were co-opted by right wing to come up with anarchocapitalism and right-libertarianism.
- netsharc 3y agoTo me, all these "isms" have millions of different versions, almost one in each brain. If you ask a fan of AOC (not all of them obviously), "socialism" might conjure an image of clean and tidy Stockholm, ask a fan of Trump (not all of them obviously) and they'll tell you about Stalin's gulags or how Sweden is overrun by "Muslim terrorist".
- Synaesthesia 3y agoAnarchism has been unfairly maligned, it’s basically associated with bomb thrower. But it’s really not about that.
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