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lemon:value eng “A believer in a political doctrine that emphasises individual liberty and a lack of governmental regulation and oversight both in matters of the economy ('free market') and in personal behavior where no one's rights are being violated or threatened. Also 'classical liberal', akin to 'anarcho-capitalist'.”
lemon:value eng “From French fr (“”), formed from liberté (“freedom”), from Latin libertas and the suffix -aire, from Latin -arius.First appeared in English in 1789 by William Belsham, in his [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=fg4WAAAAYAAJ Essays]. This was contrasted with necessitarian, in the context of free will, and was not used in the current sense.The French word is first attested in a letter in May 1857 by Frenchanarcho-communist Joseph Déjacque to anarchist philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, reading::“Anarchiste juste-milieu, libéral et non LIBERTAIRE…”In translation::“A centrist anarchist, liberal and not LIBERTARIAN…”hence the sense is of “extreme left-wing”.The French term was popularized as a euphemism for anarchist in the 1890s, following the lois scélérates, when anarchist publications were banned by law in France.The sense of “pro-property individualist” developed in the US in the 1940s, and was popularized in the 1950s. In the 1940s, Leonard Read began calling himself “libertarian” to contrast with “classical liberal”.”
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