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[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

There's a similar story of the sorts with "libertarian" ideology (a word stolen from French Anarchists - who were without a doubt leftists). Milton Friedman was paid by the oil industry to come up with it, and they peddled it through the Real Estate Association of America.

https://www.alternet.org/2013/09/true-history-libertarianism-america-phony-ideology-promote-corporate-agenda/

[-] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 8 points 4 days ago

The worst thing that ever happened to America was that Perot's third party shit became libertarian shit. If Nader and Perot as very smart men in 1980-something knowing what we'd be by now worked out a REAL plan for '92...

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