09-08-2015, 02:29 PM
(09-08-2015, 11:06 AM)michaelsean Wrote:
There is no single definition from the Enlightenment. There were several different philosophies which shared some commonality.
It is true that it didn't take long for certain private property fetishists to adopt the phrase and completely change its meaning, but most of the world ignored it then and ignores it now, in much the same way it ignores North Korea when it calls its self a "democratic republic". "Libertarian" was most typically associated with some form or other of socialism, and outside of the U.S., that is still the case.
