To AnCaps: are minarchists really libertarians?

[Autolykos]

@kropotkinbeard

Your observations on 1) are correct. The term libertarian has always been associated with socialist/communist/anarchists. What I find interesting is how few folks claiming the label “Libertarian” for themselves have even the most elementary knowledge of the history of where the term came from, that it was from its very inception anti-capitalist, as it is, and that the notion of “anarcho”-capitalism is simply nonsense.

It’s only nonsense given certain definitions. Use different definitions and it’s no longer nonsense. No one’s obligated to use certain definitions for words like “libertarian” or “anarchist” - not by history or by anything else. All you’re saying, then, is that you don’t like how some people use those words. That’s your problem, not theirs.