• Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 day ago

    What’s the difference between an anarcho capitalist and a libertarian?

    An ancap is in middle school and a libertarian isn’t allowed to be within a mile of one.

  • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
    205·
    1 day ago

    No, anarcho capitalist is more accurate. Libertarian is strictly synonymous with anarcho capitalists only in the USA, and only since the 1950s when Murray Rothbard colonized it’s actual definition, a synonym for anarchist communism. The word was first coined by French socialist newspapers during a period when writing about “anarchism” explicitly in print was banned, and merely using a different term got around the law.

    I’m a libertarian socialist, and that shouldn’t be an edgy thing to say just because some mentally stunted hubristic capitalists want to believe they don’t require the violence of the state to enforce private property.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
      12·
      1 day ago

      It’s not accurate because anarcho isn’t an accurate label for creating corporate control of production, state, and religion.

      That libertarian is stolen terminology doesn’t matter, because it’s just a false ideology through and through.