Re: P.S. (#52398)
by Roderick T. Long on February 4, 2005 at 2:59 PM

That's true, and maybe I'm being inconsistent in remaining fond of "anarchism" as a term. But I do see one difference:

There are plenty of people who have no fundamental objection to the system that most libertarians call "capitalism" but who still object to the term because it has negative associations for them.

By contrast, people who have no fundamental objection to the system that I call "anarchism" tend to object to the term, when they do, only because it has negative associations for others (i.e., for people who, given their current views, wouldn't like anarchism even if it were called something else).