There are libertarians who think anything short of Gilded Age America or Pinochet’s Chile is socialism. I once encountered one on reddit who called the fucking British Empire, literally the birthplace of capitalism and the foremost capitalist power of its time, “socialist”
turns out all of Africa has been socialist this whole time
There are some antisocialists (notably ‘Austrian economists’) who unjokingly believe that.
There are libertarians who think anything short of Gilded Age America or Pinochet’s Chile is socialism. I once encountered one on reddit who called the fucking British Empire, literally the birthplace of capitalism and the foremost capitalist power of its time, “socialist”