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So, just as all anarchists are socialists but not all socialists anarchists, by the 100th anniversary of Déjacque coining the phrase the situation was that while all anarchists were libertarians, not all libertarians were anarchists -- but all were left-wing. Over the next 60 years this would change to such a degree that in America -- and, to a lesser degree, Britain -- “libertarian” now refers to the exact opposite of what it used to mean. Murray Rothbard, a founder of the so-called “libertarian” right, sheds light on how this process started: | So, just as all anarchists are socialists but not all socialists anarchists, by the 100th anniversary of Déjacque coining the phrase the situation was that while all anarchists were libertarians, not all libertarians were anarchists -- but all were left-wing. Over the next 60 years this would change to such a degree that in America -- and, to a lesser degree, Britain -- “libertarian” now refers to the exact opposite of what it used to mean. Murray Rothbard, a founder of the so-called “libertarian” right, sheds light on how this process started: | ||
