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strikes as propaganda and isn't applicable to classical liberalism (at least as I understand and use the term) or libertarianism so much as it is of modern neoliberalism, statism, and the elitism of the modern 'liberals' composing the Democratic party and related ideologies, which have less in common with liberalism than with the class warfare philosophy or stalin and others.Liberals were sometimes contemptuous of the propertyless masses below, forming alliances with them only so far as necessary. Middle-class liberals’ contempt for those below them was often a mask for fear; their contempt of the aristocrats above them was tinged with envy.
If we're going by the Hayek definition, I'm in there.My hunch is that most who selected 'Classical Liberal' are not really Classical Liberals.
If we're going by the Hayek definition, I'm in there.My hunch is that most who selected 'Classical Liberal' are not really Classical Liberals.
Friedrich August von Hayek (May 8, 1899 - March 23, 1992) was an economist of the Austrian School noted for his defense of free-market capitalism against a rising tide of socialism thought in the mid-20th century. He also made important contributions to the fields of jurisprudence and psychology.
In The Road to Serfdom (1944) and subsequent works, Hayek said that socialism necessarily led to fascism as central planning overrode individual preferences in economic and social life. Hayek contended that in Centrally Planned Economies, an individual or a group of individuals decided the allocation of resources for the whole country and suffered from the economic calculation problem. This accumulation of power led to misuse and growth of fascism. In The Use of Knowledge in Society (1945), he sought to show how the price mechanism serves to share and synchronise local and personal knowledge in achieving diverse ends among society's members through a principle of self-organization. Hayek coined the term catallaxy for a "self-organizing system of voluntary co-operation".
Hayek viewed the price mechanism, not as a conscious invention, but as an evolved habit. Such thinking led him to speculate how the human brain could accommodate such evolved behaviour and, in The Sensory Order (1952), he proposed, independently of Donald Hebb, the connectionist hypothesis that forms the basis of the technology of neural networks and much modern neurophysiology.
Though an academic outcast for much of his career, Hayek's work gained new attention in the 1980s and 1990s with the triumph of economically liberal right-leaning governments in the United States and Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher, British prime minister from 1979 to 1990, was an outspoken devotee of Hayek's writings). However, Hayek sought to distance himself from the political right in his essay Why I am not a Conservative (1960).
Hayek shared the prize for Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1974.
Hayek is often referred to as F. A. Hayek, and sometimes by his full name.
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Personally, I would say classical liberal/libertarian
The purpose of the state is to protect the populace; the central authority should be as weak as it can be kept while being able to perform its duties. Decentralization and federation help maintain liberty.
Classical liberal / Libertarian.
"Pragmatic classical liberal."
Since that's not an option, I just put "classical liberal."
Ahhh...And nano-brain chimes in with a little of his patented trolling!!
Eat any good books lately??
Classical liberal / Libertarian.
yet another progressive posing as a liberal. gwad, they make me sick!![]()
"Pragmatic classical liberal."
Since that's not an option, I just put "classical liberal."
another...
why do some asswipes think they can be as intolerant as any jerk to walk the earth and yet claim the mantle of liberalism?