Category:Word-fuckery

Starting in the 1950s, a concerted effort on the right to colonize and redefine left-leaning terms to mean variations of right-wing extreme free-market capitalism.

• Anarcho-capitalism, a contradictory term invented by Murray Rothbard.
• Classical liberalism, a retcon by Friedrich Hayek, beginning with his 1944 book The Road to Serfdom, with a later clarification in 1956 defining what he meant by the term.
• Libertarian, among others at the Foundation for Economic Education, in 1955 Dean Russell urged followers to call themselves libertarians, which was claimed to be an obscure and unused term.