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So I challenge anybody who thinks libertarian-socialism is an oxymoron, but enjoys the works of people like Rothbard (the father of modern right-libertarianism) to look further into some of Rothbard's influences. Rothbard certainly considered such persons libertarian and recognized that what they were labeling as "socialist" was not exactly what is colloquially thought of as socialism in a post-Leninist world. He disagreed on the economics without having to misinterpret those with whom he disagreed. 

I carefully chose these from The Mises Institute, because Mises was mentioned in this thread and was another person who influenced Rothbard. The Mises institute is also a big anarcho-capitalist/right-rothbardian hub. 

https://mises.org/library/memories-benjamin-tucker

https://mises.org/library/benjamin-tucker-and-his-periodical-liberty

https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/libertarian-views-intellectual-property-rothbard-tucker-spooner-rand

https://mises.org/library/spooner-tucker-doctrine-economists-view-0

The Spooner-Tucker Doctrine: An Economist's View

"In this article, Murray N, Rothbard discusses Lysander Spooner and Benjamin R. Tucker's anti-State doctrine and how it affected his ideological development."

"
FIRST, I MUST BEGIN by affirming my conviction that Lysander Spooner and Benjamin R. Tucker were unsurpassed as political philosophers and that nothing is more needed today than a revival and development of the largely forgotten legacy that they left to political philosophy. By the mid-nineteenth century, the libertarian individualist doctrine had reached the point where its most advanced thinkers in their varying ways (Thoreau, Hodgskin, the early Fichte, the early Spencer) had begun to realize that the State was incompatible with liberty or morality. But they went only so far as to assert the right of the lone individual to opt out of the State’s network of power and tax-plunder. In this uncompleted form, their doctrines were not really a threat to the State-apparatus, for few individuals will contemplate opting out of the vast benefits of social living in order to get out from under the State ... "