• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 hours ago

    edgelord libertarians are trying to rebrand themselves as "anarcho-capatalist

    Actually, American style " libertarianism" IS anarcho-capitalism. They’ve just been trying to keep that a secret until recently.

    Anarchy and capitalism are antithetical to one another.

    Yes, and no. Anarcho-capitalism is anarchic in the colloquial “no rules, no order” sense, whereas political anarchy very much isn’t.

    The stupidity of the term is what makes it apt, though: the people politically illiterate enough to think that a total lack of regulations and worker’s rights would lead to anything resembling freedom also think that the colloquial definition of anarchy is the politically accurate one.