The early descriptions reminded me of libertarianism. did anyone else feel that?
“Libertarians seek to maximize political freedom and autonomy, emphasizing individualism, freedom of choice and voluntary association.”
“Libertarians seek to maximize political freedom and autonomy, emphasizing individualism, freedom of choice and voluntary association.”
1: “One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, ‘our side,’ had captured a crucial word from the enemy . . . ‘Libertarians’ . . . had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over..." - Murray Rothbard
Any ‘anarchist’ that is pro-capitalism is generally not regarded as anarchist by the wider anarchist movement.
Fun fact: befor the modern US meaning, libertarian used to mean anarchist-communist as a way around french authorities banning the word anarchist in the late 1800 if I remember correctly.
This first use was in the 1850's I believe. Left wing libertarianism predates the right wing use of the term by about a century.
During that time it was very much a term that encompassed anarchists and some other socialists such as libertarian Marxists.