Or how the semantic looting of the extreme right is leaving us speechless

2023-10-07 22:17:23

Until recently, the word libertarian It was synonymous with the anarchist movement: left-wing revolutionaries in a stubborn struggle against capitalism. Today, it is common to hear it as a label for the ultra-neoliberal capitalist extreme right.

Before, the word libertarian defined someone like Buenaventura Durruti or Federica Montseny. Today, this is how the far-right Argentine candidate Javier Milei and sectors of Vox define themselves.