All social
theory can be reduced to two categories: those that conceive of society as the
result of peace, and those for which the indispensable ingredient is violence.
This is the fundamental distinction between liberalism and fascism, a point I
discuss further in a book I released earlier this year calledFascism vs.
Capitalism.
There is some
confusion surrounding terms here. When Ludwig von Mises published his book Liberalism in English
translation, he changed the title toThe Free and
Prosperous Commonwealth. He did so because by the latter half of
the twentieth century, the word “liberal” no longer carried the meaning it once
had. It had come to mean centralization, the welfare state, and a substantial
government presence in economic and social life.
The liberalism
I have in mind, of course, is not the modern liberalism of Barack Obama and
Hillary Clinton, but the classical liberalism of Thomas Jefferson and Frédéric
Bastiat. Classical liberalism, by contrast, believed in free markets, free
trade, toleration, and civil liberties......It’s time we viewed the state for what it really is: a mechanism by which rulers enrich themselves at the expense of the ruled. Everything else is a smokescreen.......To Read More....
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