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 N. Rothbard
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