In my head libertarians are the right and anarchists are the left but they are similar in ideals (little to no government intervention). At least in the sense that if you talk to a libertarian I feel they tend to sound socially right and an anarchist tends to sound socially left. I have no idea if this makes sense at all. If you’re going to tell me to read more, sure, recommend some literature though.


“Libertarian” is a pretty broad category that gets used in a few different ways. Most anarchists could be considered some sort of left-libertarian if you’re working off of sort of a “political compass” model where the two axes are left/right, and libertarian/authoritarian. The people and organizations (in the US at least, can’t really say much about the rest of the world personally) who call themselves libertarians tend to skew more towards the right end of the spectrum (and often aren’t actually all that libertarian and skew more authoritarian)
Because of that, most anarchists probably aren’t too keen to label themselves as libertarian (barring some outliers like anarcho-capitalists, InB4 “those aren’t real anarchists”)
Interesting, that’s kinda how I was thinking.