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by vidarh 4050 days ago
The first person to use libertarianism as a term was an an anarchist: The French anarcho-communist Joseph Déjacque.

Libertarianism was strongly rooted on the far left for a long time - Lenins "Left Communism - An infantile Disorder" was aimed at libertarian Marxists, for example.

The "modern" right wing libertarianism is the new kid on the block.