• JesterXIII@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I can’t really see Ayn Rand as anything other than far right, and that’s about as OG libertarian as you get. Free market, unfettered capitalism.

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      1 year ago

      She’s only OG if you disregard the fifty some odd years of the word libertarian referring to anarchists like Emma Goldman. Back before Murray Rothbard hijacked the term.

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      1 year ago

      At this point I kind of agree that it’s pointless to argue about it as the word’s connotations have already changed.

      But again the Ayn Rand as a Libertarian is still viewing the word through the altered meaning that rose to prominence in the US. Previous to that change it indeed was a wing of anarchism, a left-wing ideology.