"Libertarian" coined by an anarcho-communist?

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Is this, from Wikipedia, correct?

Joseph Déjacque (December 1821, Paris – 1864, Paris) was a French anarcho-communist poet and writer. He sought to abolish “personal property, property in land, buildings, workshops, shops, property in anything that is an instrument of work, production or consumption.”[1]

Déjacque was the first to employ the term libertarian in a political sense, in a letter written in 1857 criticizing Proudhon for an alleged attack on feminism and his support of individual ownership of the product of labor, and of a market economy, saying: “it is not the product of his or her labor that the worker has a right to, but to the satisfaction of his or her needs, whatever may be their nature.”[2]

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It’s historically accurate, although an appeal to the original historical usage of terms by no means constitutes a case for some kind of unchangable objective meaning for the term.

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Oh, of course not.

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anarchist too was created by leftists. Proudhoun was the first to call himself an anarchist. And I am willing to bet Dejacque called himself libertarian to not be identified with Phoun’s anarchism.

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Left anarchists have told me for a while about this but I never knew the details.

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There is no such word as “libertarian” in french. It was “libertaire”. The english inflection “ian” normally equates with “ien” or “ienne” in french. As in “Canadien”. Someone is just arbitrarily translating “libertaire” as “libertarian”.

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there’s no “arian” at all as a suffix. Do you know french, or did you just hear that somewhere on some website?

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On désigne par libertaire ce qui prône une liberté absolue et rejette toute autorité

Le mot « libertaire » a été créé par Joseph Déjacque, militant et écrivain anarchiste, par opposition à « libéral ». Le néologisme construit sur un modèle alors répandu chez les socialistes utopiques par l’usage du terme prolétaire (égalitaire, fraternitaire), apparaît dans une lettre ouverte à P. J. Proudhon, De l’Être-Humain mâle et femelle - Lettre à P. J. Proudhon, publiée à la Nouvelle-Orléans en mai 1857. Joseph Déjacque s’oppose à la misogynie de Proudhon et l’accuse d’être « anarchiste juste-milieu, libéral et non LIBERTAIRE… ». Contre son conservatisme en matière de mœurs, Déjacque revendique la parité des sexes et la liberté du désir dans une société affranchie de l’exploitation et de l’autorité.

Joseph Déjacque a utilisé ce terme comme titre au journal qu’il a publié à New York de juin 1858 à février 1861, Le Libertaire, Journal du mouvement social, titre repris par de nombreuses autres publications ultérieures. C’est dans le dernier quart du XIXe siècle que les socialistes antiautoritaires ont adopté le terme pour désigner les théories et pratiques de l’anarchisme.

En dépit de l’origine du terme, le philosophe et sociologue marxiste Michel Clouscard a introduit l’expression synthétique « libéral-libertaire » dans son livre Néo-fascisme et idéologie du désir (1972) pour dénoncer le permissivisme moral des étudiants gauchistes de mai 1968 qu’il considère comme une attitude contre-révolutionnaire, expression depuis revendiquée par certains, à l’instar du député européen Daniel Cohn-Bendit.

L’idéologie libertaire se démarque du libertarianisme en prônant le collectivisme et souvent l’égalitarisme

The term libertarian in a metaphysical or philosophical sense was first used by late-Enlightenment free-thinkers to refer to those who believed in free will, as opposed to determinism.[14] The first recorded use was in 1789 by William Belsham in a discussion of free will and in opposition to “necessitarian” (or determinist) views.[15][16]

The use of the word ‘libertarian’ to describe a set of political positions can be tracked to the French cognate, libertaire, which was coined in 1857 by French anarchist communist Joseph Déjacque who used the term to distinguish his libertarian communist approach from the mutualism advocated by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.[17][18][19] Hence libertarian has been used as a synonym for left-wing anarchism or libertarian socialism since the 1890s.[20]

While conservatism in Europe continued to mean conserving hierarchical class structures through state control of society and the economy, some conservatives in the United States began to refer to conserving traditions of liberty. This was especially true of the Old Right, who opposed the New Deal and U.S. military interventions in World War I and World War II.[29][30]

Those who held to the earlier liberal views began to call themselves market liberals, classic liberals or libertarians to distinguish themselves.[28] (Some limited government advocates still use the term “libertarianism” almost interchangeably with the term classical liberalism.)

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The term libertarianism in metaphysical or philosophical sense was first used by late Enlightenment free-thinkers to refer to those who believed in free will, as opposed to determinism.[9] The first recorded use was in 1789 by William Belsham in a discussion of free will and in opposition to “necessitarian” (or determinist) views.

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I’d like to see actual quotes of the word being used in books or articles written in english.

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And if I were to produce as such, would you concede the point? Or are you the proverbial young-earth creationist at a natural history museum.

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There’s simply nothing to talk about until then.

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“After all we are socialists as the social-democrats, the socialists, the communists, and the I.W.W. are all Socialists. The difference – the fundamental one – between us and all the other is that they are authoritarian while we are libertarian; they believe in a State or Government of their own; we believe in no State or Government.” [Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti, p. 274]

Joseph Dejacque published Le Libertaire, Journal du Mouvement Social in New York between 1858 and 1861 while the use of the term “libertarian communism” dates from November, 1880 when a French anarchist congress adopted it. [Max Nettlau, A Short History of Anarchism, p. 75 and p. 145] The use of the term “Libertarian” by anarchists became more popular from the 1890s onward after it was used in France in an attempt to get round anti-anarchist laws and to avoid the negative associations of the word “anarchy”\

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) a coalition group called the United Libertarian Organisations (ULO) was created with the intent of spreading truthful information about the revolutionary anarchist activities in Spain