libertopianism

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English

Etymology

Blend of libertarianism +‎ utopianism.

Noun

libertopianism (uncountable)

  1. (US, politics, derogatory) Libertarianism, viewed as untenable or hopelessly idealistic.
    • 1997 December 15, BretCahill, “Re: All Men Are Angels”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):
      Conservative libertopianism is chock full of internal contradictions.
    • 2000 September 9, John Merrall, “Re: How a Libertarian Capitalist Became a Libertarian Socialist”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):
      Thus we get back to the argument that Libertopianism provides protection for the rich only, []
    • 2004, James Hughes, Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human Future, page 166:
      In 1991, the extropians also founded an e-mail list, catching the wind of the Internet typhoon and its high-tech libertopianism.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:libertopianism.