It’s become necessary to start viewing conservatism and liberalism as two sides of the same tarnished coin so as to be able to discard the entire paradigm and reinvent a new one.
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The Julian Assange Saga
Julian Assange, my friends, is a doomed man.
Read More »Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part XVI
Hayek’s human subject is so bereft of human qualities she smacks of caricature. If he or she is the presumptive bearer of our democratic freedoms, God help us all.
Read More »Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part XV
The market is for Hayek the underlying mechanism, the venue, the invisible hand which miraculously transforms all the unenlightened and shortsighted individual decisions for the good of all.
Read More »Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part XIV
Cooperative communities based on mutual aid and cooperation, have been around since the beginning of time, and they’ve been known to be successful. Hayek’s inattention to this fact speaks volumes.
Read More »François Hollande: A Modern-Day Napoleon?
A message has been sent to the Anglo-Saxon establishment, the presumptive leader of the world economy, that all bets are off. Berlin, London and New York - all have been put on notice.
Read More »Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part XIII
In time, the state was forced to function, at least de jure if not de facto, as a guarantor of the rights of the new constituents: it had become what’s come to be known as the liberal state.
Read More »Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part XII
Hayek’s gravest error: the contrast of his brand of individualism with socialism or collectivism. It’s a totally modern conception, unheard of in Hobbes’s own time, and it displays Hayek’s modern bias.
Read More »Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part XI
As far as I am concerned, one’s intellectual development cannot be complete without taking full account of a reasoned, conservative viewpoint, regardless of your personal viewpoint.
Read More »Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part X
Liberalism isn’t a theory, in a manner of speaking. It’s a state of mind, a program by the feebleminded, all who have given up on hard thinking, an opiate.
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