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== A Rightwing Populist Movement In Miniature ==
 
== A Rightwing Populist Movement In Miniature ==
 
While libertarians may profess socially left ideas such as freedom of choice, their right-conservatism becomes obvious if you ask them what parts of the right-wing economic agenda they'd be willing to sacrifice to realize their left social goals. They just won't give up their opposition to government and taxation, nor will they give up their allegiance to absolute property. No matter what social goals you propose in exchange.
 
While libertarians may profess socially left ideas such as freedom of choice, their right-conservatism becomes obvious if you ask them what parts of the right-wing economic agenda they'd be willing to sacrifice to realize their left social goals. They just won't give up their opposition to government and taxation, nor will they give up their allegiance to absolute property. No matter what social goals you propose in exchange.
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== A Left-Anarchist Movement ==
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Long ago, [[150 years of Libertarian||libertarianism everywhere meant left-anarchism]].  It is only since the 1970's that the word has come to mean right-wing supporters of capitalism in the United States.  Europeans who are very familiar with lfet-anarchism under that name can get very confused by the right-capitalist usage.  Much like soccer versus football.
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== A Right-Anarchist Movement ==
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[[Anarchocapitalism]] is a small but very distinctive thread in libertarianism.  It promotes doing away with government entirely, which is about as radical as you can get.  They fanatasize that somehow we would not be like [[http://critiques.us/wiki/Somalia:_The_Libertarian_Paradise|Somalia]] or the [[No Libertarians in the Seventeenth-Century Highlands|Scottish Highlands]] when we do away with central government.
  
 
== A Childish Selfishness ==
 
== A Childish Selfishness ==

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