• ATGM 🚀@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Theoretically? For sure. Practically speaking, it’s usually easier said than done.

    For example, the Swastika itself did nothing wrong, but it’s not exactly about to be rehabilitated.

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      1 year ago

      Agreed, energy is better spent elsewhere than trying to rehabilitate words that have been co-opted by the right. This isn’t like reappropriating a slur, like queer, trying to “take back” libertarian would just cause confusion.

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    1 year ago

    Yes, anarchists and other libertarian socialists, if any distinction is to be granted, should do all they can to shift the Overton window, and to counteract the systematic exclusion of leftism from mainstream discourse and participation, particularly in the United States, where everyone knows of the Liberterian Party, but extremely few understand the term, nor even the concept of, liberterian socialism.