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I feel that comment is on the vibe of “liberals are leftists”.

Edit: “that comment” as in the one above the one I’m replying to…

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Libertarians are not leftists.

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Ayn Rand style, “Don’t tread on me” objectivists, no. But they just co-opted the term. Libertarianism is pretty much anarchism, which is incomoatible with right wing beliefs, no matter what an-caps try and tell you. A right wing social order necessitates hierarchy, which anarchism is diametrically opposed to.

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Libertarians promote “natural” hierarchy; the ones based on slavery, inheritance, and other mechanisms of white supremacy. And ultimately, the hierarchy of money which translates to power. To say they don’t believe in hierarchy when they’re the party of the robber barons who believed the bosses should have the right to murder striking workers, even child workers, is frankly silly.

It’s not on anarchist ideology really because of this and only appeals to disinfranchised people if they haven’t bothered to do the math.

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While yes, libertarian is originally a leftist term, that’s not true what I mean.

I mean the first comment saying most people on new tech are leftists is wrong. Most people who are technophilic are liberals. As in US style Democrat liberals. Which are NOT leftists. At all.

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Communism and libertarianism have nothing to do with each other. What are you even talking about?

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Depends on which libertarian ideology is being expressed. Left libertarians - anarcho-syndicalists libertarian socialists, anarcho-communists are all libertarians. The right wing of anarchism aren’t leftists, the left wing are.

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