If you are a Libertarian and hold liberty as your core value, why do you not believe in universal healthcare? Nothing impacts liberty more than sickness and death.

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Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.

-- Karl Marx, On Free Trade

This is more a distinction between positive and negative liberty. Positive liberty is the freedom to do something, and negative liberty is the freedom from something.

Utopias aren't real, and authoritarianism ends the same way whether you're a fascist or a tankie.