• @grueOP
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    11 month ago

    Although liberalism and libertarianism share some important characteristics (strong emphasis on equality before the law and civil rights), they’re not the same thing.

    Notably, libertarianism can be left-wing in a way that liberalism cannot (e.g. anarcho-syndicalism, anarcho-communism, green politics, etc.). Some left-libertarians even reject the concept of private property entirely.

    Liberalism doesn’t completely overlap with right libertarianism, either. Liberals are more willing to accept some authoritarian ideas, such as e.g. having a military to protect trade.

    • @finitebanjo
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      Hard disagree, Libertarians are conservative anti-tax Laissez-Faire dumpster fires. They can never be left. Deregulation is not progress.

      • jawa21
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        1 month ago

        As long as you keep capitalizing the name and refer to the American political party, I would agree. However, grue is objectively correct here. A very wide set of ideologies fall under libertarianism.

        A wide swath of libertarians find even the idea of a political party objectionable, for example.

        • @finitebanjo
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          Libertarian:

          • One who advocates maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state.

          • One who believes in free will.

          • One who holds to the doctrine of free will.

          DEREGULATION IS NOT PROGRESS. These guys basically have an identical ideology to LeVayen Satanism: “Do What Thou Wilt”.

          • @grueOP
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            Libertarian: literally every ideology on the bottom half of the Political Compass, by definition.