• chaogomu@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      It wasn’t always.

      It was a left wing ideology until an American fascist co-opted the term for his own brand of rightwing nonsense.

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        I can’t really see Ayn Rand as anything other than far right, and that’s about as OG libertarian as you get. Free market, unfettered capitalism.

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          She’s only OG if you disregard the fifty some odd years of the word libertarian referring to anarchists like Emma Goldman. Back before Murray Rothbard hijacked the term.

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          At this point I kind of agree that it’s pointless to argue about it as the word’s connotations have already changed.

          But again the Ayn Rand as a Libertarian is still viewing the word through the altered meaning that rose to prominence in the US. Previous to that change it indeed was a wing of anarchism, a left-wing ideology.

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        The word libertarian was used to mean something more leftist before that term was claimed by the modern America right wing libertarian movement, but that movement was never anything but a catspaw for right wing oligarchs.