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Bastiat’s words ring true today
Posted on 9/17/21 at 8:41 pm
Posted on 9/17/21 at 8:41 pm
“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.“
Posted on 9/17/21 at 8:43 pm to DyeHardDylan
Bastiat is the goat
The greatest classical liberal ever
This post was edited on 9/17/21 at 8:46 pm
Posted on 9/17/21 at 8:47 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
He belongs to that pantheon that includes Lord Acton and the forgotten William Leggett. Lysander Spooner is another great one.
Posted on 9/17/21 at 8:50 pm to DyeHardDylan
In my backwards radical fundamentalist homeschool group in the 80s, we read The Law and gave speeches on it.
I can't believe the government still allows people to teach their own kids. Look at the crazy right-wing propaganda they're programmed with!
I can't believe the government still allows people to teach their own kids. Look at the crazy right-wing propaganda they're programmed with!
This post was edited on 9/17/21 at 8:52 pm
Posted on 9/17/21 at 8:58 pm to DyeHardDylan
"The Law" is one of the best books ever written on the role of government in society.
quote:
Perverted Law Causes Conflict
As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from
its true purpose—that it may violate property instead of protecting it—then everyone will want to participate in making the law,
either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder.
Political questions will always be prejudicial, dominant, and all absorbing. There will be fighting at the door of the Legislative
Palace, and the struggle within will be no less furious. T
Posted on 9/17/21 at 9:05 pm to DyeHardDylan
The song remains the same.
Posted on 9/17/21 at 9:42 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Bastiat is the goat
The greatest classical liberal ever
Libertarian?
Posted on 9/18/21 at 2:09 am to TerryDawg03
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Libertarian?
Lookup classical liberalism.
Posted on 9/18/21 at 3:09 am to DyeHardDylan
This post was edited on 10/8/21 at 1:42 pm
Posted on 9/18/21 at 3:37 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Bastiat is the goat
Yes
quote:
The greatest classical liberal ever
Yes
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HailHailtoMichigan
Try reading and understanding him because you're a neocon progressive
Posted on 9/18/21 at 6:17 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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HailHailtoMichigan
Your sheep costume is fake AF
Posted on 9/18/21 at 7:21 am to DyeHardDylan
Ayn Rand knew exactly what she was talking about.
Posted on 9/18/21 at 9:17 am to WeHaveTheBest
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Libertarian? Lookup classical liberalism.
TigerDawg is correct. It's very close to small 'l' libertarian. The core philosophy of both was:
'Take care of your own damn self.'
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