This leads me to consider what is perhaps the more interesting question: Not “why does Liberalism fail?” but “Why on earth does it succeed?” Or to put the question another way, “Why doesAnti-Liberalismfail, and fail always and everywhere?” And why does its opposition locate itself w...
Friedrich Hayek established a template for neoliberal intellectuals in the battle of ideas, a model that restored the utopian vigour of classical liberalism and that has been emulated around the world. But the reception of these neoliberal theories has varied in accordance with particular national ...
The youth reject the values of the parents – conservatism flips to liberalism, materialism to minimalism. Hell, maybe tomorrow’s kids will be all “Screw you dad, I wanna OWN stuff!” Reply James Chartrand - Men with Pens says: January 28, 2013 at 7:21 pm I hope not. My wee-...
Buddhism, Jainism, Universalism, Environmentalism, Pragmatism, Liberalism, Socialism, Libertarianism, Conservatism, etc. They may even appreciate components of traditional religion and spiritualism, including any supernatural elements unrelated to a god. Common among many atheists, however, is an ...
One problem I have, though, with your formulation is your assertion that conservatism “differs” from classical liberalism. There is nothing in the canons of any strain of libertarianism of which I’m aware (excepting, perhaps, the fraudulent “leftist libertarian” mutation) which precludes full...
with less focus on things like traditionalreligion. Fascism opposed the egalitarian (Völkisch equality) and international character of mainstreamsocialism, but sometimes sought to establish itself as an alternative "national" socialism. It strongly opposed liberalism,classical liberalism,communism,anarchism...
Its initial promise, per Richard Delgado (UCLA), was ‘deep discontent with liberalism, a system of civil rights litigation and activism, faith in the legal system, and hope for progress.’ On these criteria, the project has failed. It has jettisoned some of the better aspects of liberalism...
It’s not everywhere in Europe that you can celebrate freedom in this way and enjoy liberalism to its extreme. Weed, mushroom, prostitution and much more is accessible to all that have money and no matter what’s your personal opinion, it’s incredible and something to see (or experience!
Sri Lanka aspired to be a Singapore after liberalizing trade and ending a closed economy of the 1970s, but it all failed as the currency collapsed, triggering unrest and strikes while smouldering nationalism ratcheted up into a civil war and later trade
Here, at least, liberalism lives up to its utopian promise. You decide, and sovereign is he who makes the decision. We can dream about some future liberated society all we want; right here, in the present, this is the closest most people will ever get to any measure of real freedom ...