I know I could have probably looked this up with a search engine but its more fun to hear what the good people of lemmy have to say
I know I could have probably looked this up with a search engine but its more fun to hear what the good people of lemmy have to say
Libertarians are basically just conservatives who want to smoke weed.
That’s an unfair oversimplification.
They also want to get rid of that pesky ‘age of consent’.
And progressive taxes
Seriously libertarians are the civic equivalent of not knowing how potato chips are made.
Right libertarians, yep.
Left libertarians are socialists who want to own guns.
It sucks that “libertarians” get lumped in with the US Libertarian Party, because the former isn’t restricted to right or left, just like authoritarianism isn’t restricted to the right or left. It’s a whole different axis of the political map.
Is gun ownership inherently an anti-left stance? That seems like a very American thing. Didn’t Marx say that the proletariat should never be disarmed?
I’m just saying “libertarian” isn’t a right wing thing. You’ve got left libertarians and right libertarians.
No and yes.