Personally, I find his Linux and privacy-related endeavors commendable, but I widely disregard of his political stances.

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    Small correction: Leftist libertarians is usually another term for anarchism. I.e. There shouldn’t be neither governments nor corporations, but rather decentralized, self-governed communities and worker-owned cooperatives.

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      The way I learned it is that anarcho-socialism is the extremist version of leftist libertarianism. A moderate libertarian doesn’t mind the existence of a government, as long as it is limited. As for the anarchists, I know that they exist and I know that there are both on the left and the right, but I don’t have interest in reading their literature (it might be a cool theory to read, but the fact that it is so far from practice makes my interest in it practically vanish).

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        I’ve never heard any libertarians be referred to as “moderate”. As far as I understand it, “libertarianism” already includes a radical worldview. Wanting less government an simultaneously more government control IMHO sound a bit oxymoronic.

        As an anarchist myself, of course I disagree with your stance on the practicability on anarchism. ;)

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          I’ve never heard

          Well, looks like conversation is impossible then. Unless you have better sources, those two words are not 100% the same. Anarchism is a specific word, coming from the greek anarkhia, meaning “without a ruler”. Libertarianism, on the contrary, is a more broad word, since liberta is latin for “freedom”.

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            This is not about the dictionary, but about historical movements/strains of thought. The french “socialisme libertaire” is the term they used in 18th century France. And libertarian socialism aims for the freedom of all people from rulers.

            Edit: Found a source