Continuing the Campaign against Ignorance »
Posted by: omerazam 2 months, 2 weeks agoIn an earlier post I noted what I thought was the unwillingness of Australian academics to engage with the best libertarian literature in the world ââ;¬" for example, from the Cato Institute, the Ludwig von Mises Institute, the Independent Institute and the economics department at Chicago University and George Mason
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hyperbola2 months, 2 weeks ago
Actually "libertarian" ideas have been so colored by american prejudices and cultural limitations that the form in which they are now presented is ignored by most of the world. Frankly "libertarianism" looks pretty stale and there are far more interesting things about the relationships between individual freedom and social governance in current european thought. These are, of course, hardly known or mentioned in the provincial anglo-saxon world.
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Lazarus_Long2 months, 2 weeks ago
It's no wonder liberals and socialists try to dismiss libertarianism as "not practical". It's their worst nightmare! My God, suppose it actually worked BETTER than state solutions?!
Remember back when Britain had a socialist solution for everything, the gov't owned and operated much of industry, particularly the key parts, and the country barely functioned, even compared to its European socialist counterparts?
Then came Margaret Thatcher, and tore as much as possible of that out. Britain took off and BLOSSOMED!
Remember the USSR? It died of its own weight because it couldn;t handle capitalist competition - competition from free men in free societies.
Remember Vietnam? China? They used to be state-controlled socities. When their gov'ts took its heavy foot off the break, they took off.
I can't see that libertarianism needs justification; lack of it does.
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