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[[Category:Libertarian Propaganda Terms]]
 
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{{DES | des = The objective of libertarian liberty is to take power from public institutions and put it in the hands of private property owners.  This merely changes who has liberty, removing the liberty to decide public policy from voters and giving it to the rich.}}
 
{{DES | des = The objective of libertarian liberty is to take power from public institutions and put it in the hands of private property owners.  This merely changes who has liberty, removing the liberty to decide public policy from voters and giving it to the rich.}}
 
There is no such thing as "liberty", where everybody is free to do whatever they want.  Some people have liberties to do some things.  Other people have illiberties, are prohibited from doing other things.
 
There is no such thing as "liberty", where everybody is free to do whatever they want.  Some people have liberties to do some things.  Other people have illiberties, are prohibited from doing other things.
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The objective of libertarian liberty is to take power from public institutions and put it in the hands of private property owners.  This merely changes who has liberty, removing the liberty to decide public policy from voters and giving it to the rich.
 
The objective of libertarian liberty is to take power from public institutions and put it in the hands of private property owners.  This merely changes who has liberty, removing the liberty to decide public policy from voters and giving it to the rich.
 
"I do not propose to discuss either the history of this protean word or the more than two hundred senses of it recorded by historians of ideas."  Berlin
 

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