This emphasis transcends the putative left-right divide within libertarian thought, which places free-market and capitalist “right libertarians” on one side and socialist and anti-capitalist “left libertarians” on the other. Both camps, if we wish to abide this simplistic division, earnestly celebrate the productive classes, however defined, and denounce those who live off of the toil of hardworking others.
This motif is something of an obsession among libertarians. Yet from this obsession does not follow the claim that libertarians have always identified the rich as the makers and the poor as the takers, or that libertarian ideas necessarily entail such a stance. Early libertarians argued that the rich and politically connected were the primary economic beneficiaries of state power, dependent upon the kind of redistribution and intervention to which libertarians are opposed in principle.
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