I neither stated nor implied anyone was a “nut” but Rothbard is clearly the most prominent figure in the anarcho-capitalist movement.
Again you do not define words. No definition of the word Libertarian in any dictionary mentions anything about “force” or “anarchy”. The only reason I use the phrase “limited government libertarian” is to make it crystal clear to the anarchists who do not understand the definition of common english language words where my position lies.
Minarchists and Anarcho-Capitalists can both be called Libertarians and there is nothing you can do about it.
Ayn Rand was neither a classical liberal nor libertarian. Unless you include her in the sense that many people who are classical liberal or libertarian have been influenced by her ideas.
There is no “movement”. The four minarchists you named, none of them were the band leaders of minarchism. You’re just cobbling together random stuff.
If you want to play semantic games, do it somewhere else. You’ve been told this no less than a half dozen times already. Dictionary definitions, which characterize libertarianism as a political ideology are false.
Again, this has been explained to you numerous times. “limited government libertarian” is like being “a little pregnant”. You either are a libertarian, or not. To qualify it with limited government is completely nonsensical. Does that mean there are “big government libertarians”? Of course not.
You can call yourself a purple dinosaur for all I care. It doesn’t change what is. Minarchists are not libertarians. They are small government liberals at best.
Until you give up aggressive violence as a means of social organization, you will not be a libertarian.
I never claimed they were band leaders of anything. I simply mentioned four of the most prominent names.
There are no games only formal definitions of words that are used in the English language so we can communicate properly. Sorry if I never accept your fabricated definition of words over the dictionary.
This is only a problem if you do not understand the definition of words or try to create your own definitions. It must be fun watching you try to talk to people who know how to use dictionaries
Nope, I’m a libertarian by definition.
Libertarian - “One who advocates maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state.”
Sorry you do not decide libertarian qualifications or the definition of words. Aggressive violence has nothing to do with the definition.
I really wish that Hayek had created a better term in The Constitution of Liberty for his political positions so that libertarian minarchists could simply relinquish the term “libertarian” to Rothbardians while still having a common epithet.
Did you read it or not? If so, where was Kinsella wrong?
If you didn’t read it, why not?
So?
I guess you missed the end of the article.
It took me a matter of hours to be converted to libertarian minarchism. It took a matter of minutes, I was so ready for it, I had invested so much into the preliminaries of it, to see the light on anarcho-capitalism. Austrianism took months, maybe years; in a sense, many years later, now, I am still working on it. Such is the story of my beginnings in the movement.
Block is an anarchist. So I will ask again, are Hoppe, Block and Rockwell wrong?
No what I want is for people to stop misusing words. If you want to stop arguing the definitions of words don’t try to define them by made up definitions.