Croatia demolished houses of libertarian project “Liberland”, seized property (liberlandpress.com)

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[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Most of the libertarians I know, and I know a bunch, are right wing extremist anarchists. Libertarianism aligns far more closely with socialism than it does with either capitalism or communism but it's been co-opted by extreme right plutocrats to disrupt society for their own authoritarian ends.

[-] Serdan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Right-wing Anarchy is an oxymoron. They claim to be anarchists because Anarchy is cool, but they're just liberal LARPers.

One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, ‘our side,’ had captured a crucial word from the enemy . . . ‘Libertarians’ . . . had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over...

Murray N. Rothbard

The fight over "libertarian" is probably lost at this point (at least in public discourse), but it'll be a cold day in Hell before I accept their claim on Anarchy.

[-] db2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think you know what 'liberal' means if you actually think libertarians are that. The only similarity is in the name which is frankly yet another example of their dishonesty.

[-] Serdan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism

Relevant part:

In the mid-20th century, American right-libertarian proponents of anarcho-capitalism and minarchism co-opted the term libertarian to advocate laissez-faire capitalism and strong private property rights such as in land, infrastructure and natural resources. The latter is the dominant form of libertarianism in the United States. This new form of libertarianism was a revival of classical liberalism in the United States, which occurred due to American liberals' embracing progressivism and economic interventionism in the early 20th century after the Great Depression and with the New Deal.

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