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Shame about Teddy's authright streak
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Disbanding monopolies is 'authoritarian' like locking up murders is authoritarian.
Criminals and capitalists deprive others of liberty - preventing them from doing so is libertarian.
A similar concept applies to neutralizing the threat posed by tyrannical nation states. Would-be tyrants will call it 'imperialist' in their propaganda when the effect is actually an increase in freedom.
The problem is that nuance is hard for people and libertarians just want a blanket “no rules” all the time while not acknowledging that they will never have the biggest stick.
That's an unfortunately common misconception about lib-left.
Anarchy does not mean "no rules" - that's the right wing position of Deregulate All The Things, and it predictably leads to chaos.
Anarchy means no hierarchy - rules are created through democratic process instead of by minority authoritarian fiat.
Ya’ll might want a rebrand because the literal definition of “anarchy” is to not have any rules. It’s not a common misconception, it’s a common miscommunication.
Learning that 'libertarian socialist' was a synonym cleared things up for me when I was younger.