به‌طور سنتی، لیبرترین اصطلاحی بود که توسط کمونیست لیبرترین کمونیستی فرانسویLong, Roderick T. (2012). "The Rise of Social Anarchism". In Gaus, Gerald F. ; D'Agostino, Fred, eds. "The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy". p. 223. "In the meantime, anarchist theories of a more communist or collectivist character had been developing as well. One important pioneer is French anarcho-communists Joseph Déjacque (1821–1864), who [...] appears to have been the first thinker to adopt the term "libertarian" for this position; hence "libertarianism" initially denoted a communist rather than a free-market ideology." و ژوزف دژاک،Woodcock, George (1962). "Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements". Meridian Books. p. 280. "He called himself a "social poet," and published two volumes of heavily didactic verse—Lazaréennes and Les Pyrénées Nivelées. In New York, from 1858 to 1861, he edited an anarchist paper entitled "Le Libertaire, Journal du Mouvement Social", in whose pages he printed as a serial his vision of the anarchist Utopia, entitled L'Humanisphére."Marshall, Peter (2009). "Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism". p. 641. "The word 'libertarian' has long been associated with anarchism, and has been used repeatedly throughout this work. The term originally denoted a person who upheld the doctrine of the freedom of the will; in this sense, Godwin was not a 'libertarian', but a 'necessitarian'. It came however to be applied to anyone who approved of liberty in general. In anarchist circles, it was first used by Joseph Déjacque as the title of his anarchist journal "Le Libertaire, Journal du Mouvement Social" published in New York in 1858. At the end of the last century, the anarchist Sebastien Faure took up the word, to stress the difference between anarchists and authoritarian socialists". سردبیر روزنامه «لی لیبرتیر» ابداع شد که به‌معنای نوعی از سیاست‌های جناح چپ است و از اواسط تا اواخر قرن نوزدهم اغلباً برای اشاره به آنارشیسمBookchin, Murray (January 1986). "The Greening of Politics: Toward a New Kind of Political Practice". "Green Perspectives: Newsletter of the Green Program Project" (1). "We have permitted cynical political reactionaries and the spokesmen of large corporations to pre-empt these basic libertarian American ideals. We have permitted them not only to become the specious voice of these ideals such that individualism has been used to justify egotism; the pursuit of happiness to justify greed, and even our emphasis on local and regional autonomy has been used to justify parochialism, insularism, and exclusivity – often against ethnic minorities and so-called deviant individuals. We have even permitted these reactionaries to stake out a claim to the word libertarian, a word, in fact, that was literally devised in the 1890s in France by Elisée Reclus as a substitute for the word anarchist, which the government had rendered an illegal expression for identifying one's views. The propertarians, in effect – acolytes of Ayn Rand, the earth mother of greed, egotism, and the virtues of property – have appropriated expressions and traditions that should have been expressed by radicals but were willfully neglected because of the lure of European and Asian traditions of socialism, socialisms that are now entering into decline in the very countries in which they originated".Fernandez, Frank (2001). "Cuban Anarchism. The History of a Movement". Sharp Press. p. 9. "Thus, in the United States, the once exceedingly useful term "libertarian" has been hijacked by egotists who are in fact enemies of liberty in the full sense of the word."Ward, Colin (2004). "Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction". Oxford University Press. p. 62. "For a century, anarchists have used the word 'libertarian' as a synonym for 'anarchist', both as a noun and an adjective. The celebrated anarchist journal "Le Libertaire" was founded in 1896. However, much more recently the word has been appropriated by various American free-market philosophers." و سوسیالیسم لیبرترین"The Week Online Interviews Chomsky". "Z Magazine". 23 February 2002. Retrieved 12 July 2019. "The term libertarian as used in the US means something quite different from what it meant historically and still means in the rest of the world. Historically, the libertarian movement has been the anti-statist wing of the socialist movement. In the US, which is a society much more dominated by business, the term has a different meaning. It means eliminating or reducing state controls, mainly controls over private tyrannies. Libertarians in the US don't say let's get rid of corporations. It is a sort of ultra-rightism." since the mid- to late 19th century."150 years of Libertarian"."160 years of Libertarian". به‌کار می‌رفت. «سباستین فاور»، یکی دیگر از کمونیست لیرترین فرانسوی، در اواسط دهه ۱۸۹۰ میلادی، انتشار روزنامه جدیدی با عنوان «لی لیبرتیر» را آغاز کرد. این کار درحالی صورت گرفت که جمهوری سوم فرانسه قوانین به اصطلاح «شریر» را وضع کرد که منشورهای آنارشیستی را در فرانسه ممنوع کرد. براساس گفته «آنتونی کومگنا» از مؤسسه کیتو، بنجامین تاکر، سوسیالیست لیبرترین، اولین آمریکایی بود که در اواخر دهه ۱۸۷۰ و اوایل دهه ۱۸۸۰ اصطلاح لیبرترین را به‌کار برد.Comegna, Anthony; Gomez, Camillo (3 October 2018). "Libertarianism, Then and Now". "Libertarianism". Cato Institute. "[...] Benjamin Tucker was the first American to really start using the term "libertarian" as a self-identifier somewhere in the late 1870s or early 1880s." Retrieved 3 August 2020.