• quindraco
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    1 year ago

    I am beyond sick and tired of both left and right wing people using “Libertarian” to refer to lunatics from the American GOP who decided to co-op and abuse the term.

    Libertarianism per se has nothing to do with capitalism per se. You can have libertarianism with or without capitalism and vice-versa, at least in principle (in practice, of course, some implementations are going to be more challenging than others to design and/or implement).

    • Veraxus@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Bad faith appropriation and inversion of leftist terms is a core tenet of the right.

      “War is peace.
      Freedom is slavery.
      Ignorance is strength.”