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Lloyd George and William Beveridge |
American Libertarianism is dangerously close to tribalism. It embodies the idea that there will be a natural order if people are allowed total freedom but history tells us that this natural order is the tribe, a social order that is not enticing.
Socialism is an anathema to both British liberal thinkers and libertarians. It holds that the social order is dependent on an economic order operated by the State. Socialism is the greatest threat to freedom since the disappearance of absolute monarchies and has given birth to all the major and most of the minor tyrannies of the past century, from the Soviet Union through National Socialist Germany to Nazi North Korea.
Liberals can point out that the economy of every socialist state has failed and so the socialist economic order is a mistake, a mirage to pave the road to hell with apparently good intentions. This was the lesson of the last century. A lesson that Marxist academics, who appoint each other to university posts, have not learnt.
Postmodern Postmarxism is an attack on everything. It is often known by the curious title "political correctness" but its true intent is perpetual disruption. It is the last refuge of lost souls, of aimless materialists who know no better.
It is sad that the formation of the Liberal-Democrats destroyed the British Liberal Party, leaving it as an unrepresented minority in British politics and shifting the centre ground dangerously close to socialism. The remnant Liberal Party is an interesting example of liberalism.
Do you have good intentions?
Postmodernism-poststructuralism-postmarxism
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