In fact, in terms of the culture wars, libertarians can be seen as extremely left-wing on some issues (anti-war, pro drug legalization) and extremely right-wing on others (anti-taxation).

When the word ‘libertarianism’ is used in the U.S., it usually refers to right-libertarianism; when the word ‘libertarianism’ is used in Europe, it usually refers to left-libertarianism (at least that is what I heard Noam Chomsky, who identifies himself as a libertarian socialist, say in an interview). Wikipedia’s entries on right-libertarianism, left-libertarianism, and other related topics is probably a good source of information on these distinctions.

And just for clarity sake, it is worth pointing out that The Libertarian Standard is a right-libertarian website according to the above stated distinction.

However, libertarians shouldn’t solely rely on this term because it does not denote the propertarian aspect of right-wing libertarianism that is so crucial to the philosophy. In other words, leftists could conceivably claim that they are supporters of “voluntary governance” but that they simply reject the Lockean/libertarian account of how one comes to own property by “mixing his labor” with it, etc.

Side note: Apparently “voluntaryist” and “voluntarist” are words that can be used to denote a supporter of “voluntary governance” according to Wikipedia.

Moreover, if we remove the first “an” from “voluntary governanarian” we are left with a label that isn’t too bad and that still makes sense for libertarians.

Though some anarchists like to give the word all kinds of nuanced spin, the fact of the matter is that the etymology of the word anarchy, from the ancient Greek, means: without a leader.

No, it means without a ruler.

A ruler is one kind of leader. There are others.