Originally Posted by Smidgey

What are you talking about.

Liberalism existed long before libertarianism was even though of. Liberalism was, in a sense, the old version of the modern libertarian (take Bastiat, the earlier Mill, Smith (apart from perhaps book five) and Locke (for the most part) as examples.

Liberalism turned into socialism - c.f. Mill. Libertarianism was created much later, as a new name for those who could no longer call themselves liberals (although some still tried to cling onto it, such as Friedman). I would be happy to call myself a liberal, but nobody would understand what I meant.

But hell, even if you are right, at least you've been proactive in your choice of political party. Rather than start off with libertarianism and then descend into liberalism and so on. You've jumped right in the deep end and started with BNP socialism.

P.S. How does my own personal story of becoming a libertarian from being a left-wing liberal fit into your neat little picture of political ideologies?