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The core values of libertarianism: (god I wish I saved the original reddit comment, oh well I'll paraphrase)
"Yes it's fascist pseudoscience with no basis in reality, however it's still a useful theory so I'm going to continue to believe it"
Tbh I was confused for a second and then thought. "Oh... Right-wing libertarianism!"
Where do you live that after reading "libertarianism" first thing you think about is left?
it took me a long time to realise that just because it has the word liberty (almost) in it, doesn't mean it's a left-wing idea.
In the US, that's almost a red flag. (The other kind of red flag. I'm beginning to see the problem here.)
If you encounter primly-dressed members of some Family Liberty Choice For America Council, run screaming in the opposite direction.
Left libertarianism was first... But nowadays it only exists to "well actually" people with, at least in the US.
Yeah. In Poland libertatrianism started around 1980 with a pretty fun episode when Janusz Korwin-Mikke went to the famous opening strike of solidarność in the Gdańsk Shipyard and preached to them the virtues of capitalism and free market. Shocked workers listened to the nonsense, concluded he has to be a militia provocateur (he really wasn't) and locked him in the shed.
Currently, polish libertarians have such overlap with monarchists and neonazis they are even for years in a single political party - Konfederacja.