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>"Libertarianism is NOT Anarcho-Capitalism." Anarcho-capitalists would consider themselves libertarian, and many famous ones are also leading lights of the lib
by Prrometheus 18y ago
>"Libertarianism is NOT Anarcho-Capitalism."
Anarcho-capitalists would consider themselves libertarian, and many famous ones are also leading lights of the libertarian movement. Murray Rothbard is clearly a libertarian, and Lysander Spooner belongs to the classical liberal tradition that the libertarians adopt as their forefathers.
The problem is that "libertarianism" is a medium-sized tent. So when you criticize "libertarians" for position X, well some hold that position and some don't.
- pelle 18y agoAlso by definition we are at liberty to believe whatever we want. Kind of by definition we don't have any leaders to define what we think, even though many of us read lots of stuff by Rothbard, Mises, Hayek, Rand etc. Me I am definitely a libertarian, classical liberal, randian, anarcho-capitalist and several other labels that I might invent. But in reality we all have our different ideas of whats important and what isn't. And we do laugh at ourselves about this. Check out Peter Bagge's great comic about what happen when Libertarians gather... http://www.reason.com/news/show/28655.html http://www.reason.com/news/show/28655.html