Edited sentence: " It is an antonym of "authoritarian." There is thus a somewhat striking, and sometimes troubling, difference between the connotations of the term in the United States as compared to the way it is used in many other parts of the world.According to anarchist historian Max Nettlau, the use of the term "libertarian communism" dates from November, 1880 when a French anarchist congress adopted it.Dean Russell first used the term in this way on May 1955 in the Foundation for the Economic Education (FEE).French anarchist Sébastien Faure founded Le Libertaire (The Libertarian) in 1895.Here, libertarian means ultra right-wing capitalist.In Europe, where the term libertarian was first coined, it is more usually a euphemism for anarchism or libertarian socialism.In the European tradition, libertarian meant socialist.Noam Chomsky has stated that "Libertarian in the United States has a meaning which is almost the opposite of what it has in the rest of the world traditionally.Pierre Joseph Proudhon's vision was a Libertarian vision that consisted of "(1) an analysis of the power relations underlying existing forms of political authority and (2) a vision of an alternative libertarian society based on cooperation, as opposed to competition and coercion, and functioning without the need for government authority.Property rights advocates have popularized the association of the term with their ideology.So, anarchism was sometimes called libertarian socialism, a large wing of anarchism, so we have to be a little careful about terminology.The label was first used in print in 1858 by Joseph Déjacque.The name "libertarianism" has been adopted by several very different political groups.The use of the term "Libertarian" by anarchists was first popularized in France in the 1890s to subvert the anti-anarchist laws, Lois scélérates.The word libertarian is the combination of the word "liberty" and the suffix "-ian" which literally means "of or about freedom.when criticizing the position of Pierre Joseph Proudhon, who was, in his own words, "half anarchist, liberal and not libertarian