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Nope, it’s not. “Libertarian socialism” and “anarchism” are often used more-or-less interchangeably, though I’m sure someone will take issue with that categorization. The pro-capitalist usage of the word “libertarian” is an appropriation of a leftist term by the right.

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In French, libertaire and anarchist are literally interchangeable.

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I am beyond sick and tired of both left and right wing people using “Libertarian” to refer to lunatics from the American GOP who decided to co-op and abuse the term.

Libertarianism per se has nothing to do with capitalism per se. You can have libertarianism with or without capitalism and vice-versa, at least in principle (in practice, of course, some implementations are going to be more challenging than others to design and/or implement).

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Bad faith appropriation and inversion of leftist terms is a core tenet of the right.

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”

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Democratic socialism is often seen as a form of libertarian socialism as well. There are actually a bunch of different left-lib modes which are a bit more moderate that outright anarchy.

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