Nornagest comments on 2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nornagest 17 November 2014 09:15:48PM *  2 points [-]

Cladistically, libertarianism comes out of the Left, not the Right, and in fact shares fairly close historical ties with socialism. This is obscured somewhat by the fact that modern libertarians talk a lot like modern conservatives and tend to use "socialist" as a loose secular synonym for "the spawn of he whom we call the Desolate One", but that's a trend that started no earlier than the Seventies or late Sixties.