09-08-2015, 03:55 PM
(09-08-2015, 02:29 PM)GodHatesBengals Wrote: 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.
Where are you getting this? Libertarianism was a movement of free will and self-determination, which is what the different branches had in common. How to get there is where they differed. There was no single one that others jumped on and changed.
Private property fetishists?
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