Reply #30: I'm an anarchist, ask me anything

[toddaa]

The problem with the word 'libertarian' is that some time in the late 60s, the Rothbard/Freidman wing of classical liberalism hijacked the word and used it as their term for the paradoxical term 'anarcho-capitalist'. Outside the US, the word 'libertarian' has an entirely different meaning. The big issue dividing Libertarians (in the LP sense) and traditional anarchists is private property.

From a historical standpoint, American libertarians are people like Benjamin Tucker, Lysander Spooner, and Henry Thoreau. None of which were "classical liberals". A good example of an American leftist libertarian today would be Noam Chomsky.

For a better explanation of anarchism -> http://www.spunk.org