Omnilibertarian Lexicon
Perhaps this can become the "Esparanto" of libertarianism, to encourage mutual understanding among left libertarians, anarcho-capitalists, anarcho-socialists, agorists, voluntaryists, mutualist anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists, and other libertarian viewpoints.
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Slave-speak | Free-speak |
leader (of a government entity) | ruler |
tax-payer | tax-serf |
capitalism | Avoid! Ambiguous. Instead use: |
statist kind | propertarian statism or corporatism or fascism. |
stateless kind | propertarian anarchism or propertarian libertarianism |
socialism | Avoid! Ambiguous. Instead use: |
statist kind | anti-propertarian statism or collectivist statism |
stateless kind | anti-propertarian anarchism or anti-propertarian libertarianism |
rent-seeking | loot-seeking |
The Slave 'We' - E.g. Our country, our nation, our leader, we bombed ... "Support Our Troops" |
The State's claimed turf, the ruler, the ruling elites bombed ... "Condemn the Rulers' Hired Murderers" |
"Nation" Statists like to sugar-coat "State" with friendlier names appealing to racial, ethnic, and religious characteristis ("nation") or with regional localism ("country.") |
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