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Forgotten where to endorse...

But I'll do so for politics.

Direct action

This needs to be disambiguated from direct action (military). Howard C. Berkowitz 19:45, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

"Libertarianism"

While the word "libertarian" is the synonym to the word "anarchist", nowadays another school of thought appropriated this term. May be someday one will create "libertarian subgroup"? It is obvious that "Libertarian parties", minarchists, conservatives have nothing to do with anarchism. And i don't mean market anarchism, but statist tendencies only. --Mirzhan Irkegulov 08:01, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Then this co-opting needs to be explained. As I mentioned, I have very little knowledge of the European schools of anarchism. Certainly since the mid-1960s, however, anarcho-libertarianism, in varying degrees, has been part of American libertarian theory and even practice.

The last term I would associate with libertarianism is statism. A "pure" anarcho-libertarian tends to want no government at all. Variants want extremely minimal government functions.

In the U.S., the Libertarian Party is not a strong force among extremely individualistic libertarians. Depending on who may be speaking, libertarianism may or may not be considered part of American conservatism. In the Tea Party Movement, there's a conflict between libertarian-oriented people that consider personal freedom to be the most important right, and social conservatives who want to control personal behavior. They have an uneasy alliance because both, in principle, want to reduce government.

Would you elaborate on the co-opting? Howard C. Berkowitz 08:10, 21 September 2010 (UTC)