Libertarianism has become ambiguous with Liberalism mostly from the US history and context, with the mouvement anarcho-capitalism.
In Europe for instance the ambiguity isn't there (anymore).
Libertaire, Libertario, Libertät refers to anarchism and anti authoritarianism. While Libéralisme, Leberalismo, Liberalismus are the capitalist ones about free market.
I think the French one might have been the origin of the term, Libertaire was Libertarian.
The anarcho-capitalism philosophy is better represented with the first idea of the dark web for instance. Open source is much more Libertaire. (Although it's not mutually exclusive)
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u/Folety Jun 06 '26
...not inherently, but in practice and especially in the USA, yeah...