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Remember that the United States is out of the world on this type of thing. Britain is to a limited extent, but the United States is on Mars. So here, the term libertarian means the opposite of what it always meant in history. Libertarian throughout European history meant socialist-anarchist. The workers movement--the socialist movement--sort of broke into 2 branches, one statist, one anti-statist. The statist branch led to Bolshevism and Lenin and Trotsky and so on; the anti-statist branch, which included left-Marxists like Rosa Luxumberg, kind of merged with a big strain of anarchism into what was called libertarian socialism. So libertarian in Europe always meant socialist. Here, it means ultra-Ayn Rand or Cato Institute or something like that. But thats a special US usage having to do with the--there are a lot of things special here. -Noam Chomsky https://m.youtube/watch?v=Gj793e8Ss4w&feature=player_embedded
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 07:22:36 +0000

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