When she’s not busy fantasizing about libertarian crypto-based UBI schemes or propping up the patriarchy, she’s writing wearying odes to transhumanism and longtermism. Truly the voice of a generation.
When she’s not busy fantasizing about libertarian crypto-based UBI schemes or propping up the patriarchy, she’s writing wearying odes to transhumanism and longtermism. Truly the voice of a generation.
IIRC the association between libertarianism and conservatism is somewhat recent? Wikipedia is saying libertarianism was born out of left wing politics.
That being said the treacles libertarianism is not that at all.
@swlabr If by ‘recent’ you mean ‘since the foundation of the Libertarian Party’. Libertarians were all-in for Reagan, their poster boy Ron Paul caucused with the GOP, etc etc etc.
Rothbard deliberately and consciously stole the term from anarchists for his new right-wing version, anarchocapitalism.
Yes that’s more or less what I meant. I am not a pro historian or anything but libertarianism pre-dates the libertarian party. My understanding is that the origins of libertarianism only bear a passing resemblance to the modern formulation.
(If it is sounding like I am defending libertarianism just fucking kill me)
@swlabr @sneerclub Liberalism and libertarianism do share roots and those roots were, for the time, “leftist.” The basic shared concepts being that government power should be limited by fundamental law and that limits on personal freedom should be minimal, rational, and uniformly applied. Locke, Jefferson, Madison, etc.
American “conservatism” is particularly friendly to libertarianism because it has no monarchist roots.