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An early source of American libertarianism are the works of Lysander Spooner.
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Lysander Spooner's opinions were not all that like those of modern day right-libertarians.
http://www.spunk.org/texts/intro/faq/sp001547/secG7.html And in Europe, though it might likely confuse many Americans, the term libertarian typicly refers to the
libertarian left, while liberalism would be commonly taken to mean classical liberals, or what Americans generally refer to as libertarians. But the very first person to describe himself politicly as being libertarian was the anarcho-communist
Joseph Déjacque. So I feel that the left has more of a valid claim to it than does the right. And I, unlike most other
libertarian marxists regard Lenin's
"The State and Revolution" as being corelational to
Communalism, which is a type of left-libertarian collectivism.