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The reason that libertarians--in the contemporary American sense--hang out more with conservatives trhan with liberals is that they *are* conservatives. This is obviously so on economic issues which are historically the important issues dividing Left from Right. As for other issues, not all conservatives favor an interventionist foreign policy and most of them don't support suppression of homosexual acts any more, though they do oppose gay marriage. And some libertarians are pro-life.

In Europe, of course, libertarian still refers to what it did in the nineteenth century--the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist wing of the revolutionary Left. I am not sure who stole the word in America for the pro-capitalist Right--Murray Rothbard?

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Ronfar's avatar

[irony]Indeed.[/irony]

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