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I know right wingers in the US intentionally stole the word to disempower the working class (Rothbard is on record doing this on purpose) and that's why I always make it clear whether I'm talking about libertarian or capital L Libertarian and I sympathise with people being confused by this

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Bur, I'm sorry, the moment you start clowning on people, maybe go read a book or something. Talk to an IWW member. Learn about the history of the labour movement. Consider that there's parts of leftism that don't root back to Lenin. Give the high horse a rest.

Dorsey is not part of this tradition and his Libertarianism is of the right wing nature but it's important to recognise that technologies made by capital L Libertarians exist both to perpetuate right wing politics and undermine leftist alternatives that get less funding while also by their nature

still being possible to utilise as tools against state control (in a way we need to be careful with and suspicious of) and this tension should make you more curious about libertarian socialism rather than pretending that even bringing up its existence is somehow wild.

Also, because of what people are saying in the replies of that thread: libertarian is the opposite of authoritarian, it says nothing about individualism vs collectivism, those are separate axes