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I’ve been right and have been downvoted too ;) But I’m not an expert on this topic. How is anarchy not the extreme libertarian position?

• rat87 2y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_communism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_communism Vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism > While the earliest extant attestation of "anarchocapitalism" [sic] is in Karl Hess's essay "The Death of Politics" published by Playboy in March 1969,[8][9] American economist Murray Rothbard was credited with coining the terms anarcho-capitalist[10][11] and anarcho-capitalism in 1971 Left wing anarchism used the name much earlier and arguably was more influential historically even in the US. For example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_William_McKinley https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_William_McK... was done by a left wing anarchist. But arguably in the US it might be used more often to refer to anarcho capitalists these days I believe there's a similar sort of issue with the term libertarianism that was at least sometimes used to refer to something similar to anarcho Communism
  • dartos 2y ago
    My understanding of the main libertarianism is that it calls for extremely small government with minimal impact on the lives of individuals. This seems pretty in line with anarchy. I know that in the US “libertarians” tend to be fairly right leaning, but I don’t think that “libertarian” means “republican” Maybe the confusion is just over semantics.