I was a libertarian when I was really young.. It was sort of my way to rebel against my centrist/social democrat american family.
I was a libertarian/anarcho-capitalist when I didn't know much about capitalism. I thought free market meant freedom.
I became interested in (American) Libertarianism a few years ago. I (thankfully) never got too involved, although I got a letter asking for money () a few months ago. I dropped it after I pulled my head out of my ass and saw the effects of capitalism worldwide.
i used to be a libertarian thats all
I was an Anarcho-Capitalist when I was younger due to the negative influence of my parents free-market perspective. They raised me that government was the only problem, but when I started studying the world and human conditions I quickly fell out of that and upon studying Communism I knew I found everything I ever wanted our world to be.
I used to be a libertarian and anarcho-capitalist. It seemed to make sense at the time. But I soon realised the great injustices commited in the name of capitalism and the general hypocrisy of the whole system. Some of my friends were communists and I was unable to justify why I thought the way I did. So I realised I was wrong, and became a socialist, then a communist.
i used to be a liberal though
i used to value marxism until I realised the enormous fallacies of the Labour Theory of value. Specifically the failure to acknowledge subjective marginal utility. Also the ethics of marxism conflict with my pacifist tendencies. I don't demonize anarcho-socialists/syndicalists, I simply believe that these methods of organizing society would become redundant in the total market - otherwise known as the stateless society. I have a strict definition of "the state" and often find many self-proclaimed "anarchists" are in fact statists, rendering their credibility void.
I thought Ron Paul crapped cupcakes. That's why I have so much patience debating with his followers. Luckily, many of them are actually trying to figure things out and the only reason that they hate socialism so much is that they don't know much about it.
