That’s just Spiked and its tortured political history showing up. It started off as a magazine called Living Marxism, published by a weird Trotskyist party who were relentlessly contrarian about everything, and ended up getting sued out of existence after accusing a major news programme in the UK of making up war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. Their writers reformed as Spiked, and kept it up with the anti-everything takes, gradually morphing into a hard-right “libertarian” stance.
They would have faded into absolute irrelevance by now, were it not for their habit of being useful idiots for every right-wing crank cause that comes along.
To be fair, while I know what both of those words mean individually, I haven’t got the faintest clue what they mean together. I was going to say it’d be like someone calling themselves a Democratic Fascist, but that actually seems like a barely possible ideology. Marxist Libertarian? I can’t even imagine how that would work.
To be fair, the term libertarian used to be more widely used on the left than the right. Like Emma goldman used to call herself a libertarian. I think it used just be a debate over the role of the state and if you can ever have a non-coercive state. So, it can fit along those lines. But the far right hijacked the term libertarian to pretend like they care about something outside of their ability to get rich and lord it over the rest of us losers.
Libertarianism has been socialist for a century longer than it has been capitalist, It’s somewhere between anarchism and orthodox Marxism. De Leonism was the original American version of Libertarian Marxism, similar to anarcho-syndicalism but they differed by believing in the need for a political party.
Anyone who writes for Spiked stopped being a socialist years ago, if they ever were one to start with. They are all authoritarian capitalists now.
So that means this whole time, when people mentioned “trans men” he was assuming they were still talking about trans women. I guess he just thought they were two different terms for the same people)
