scottpgreen
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I am a London based, 30-something PhD student, writing on Politics, Current Affairs and International Relations from a classical liberal perspective.
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I'll be interested in reading some of what you write. If for no other reason then to see if you and I share the same definition of 'classical liberal'.I am a London based, 30-something PhD student, writing on Politics, Current Affairs and International Relations from a classical liberal perspective.
I am a London based, 30-something PhD student, writing on Politics, Current Affairs and International Relations from a classical liberal perspective.
Facts and the truth usually are. Now if he would have said progressive politics, why the amount of fiction is infinite.I am a London based, 30-something PhD student, writing on Politics, Current Affairs and International Relations from a classical liberal perspective.
writing from the perspective of classic liberal ?...that sounds rather narrow and limiting
Hello scottpgreen - Welcome to the playground. Even though you called yourself a liberal,
I am a London based, 30-something PhD student, writing on Politics, Current Affairs and International Relations from a classical liberal perspective.
Hey guys, thanks for the responses.....
I guess there's a conservative tilt to this board then, lol!
Not to worry. By 'classical' liberal I mean classical English liberalism. It combines a robust empiricism with a jealous regard for freedom, a healthy scepticism, and a deep and abiding suspicion of the state.
It is rooted in the centuries old tradition of English liberty, but its modern formulation begins with the Whigs. And so that is the tradition I come out of. The one that gave us modern, limited government and checks on the power of the state. I'm what you might call a nineteenth century liberal in the John Stuart Mill tradition.
It's much closer to your founding tradition than what you understand by the term 'liberal' today.
Hey guys, thanks for the responses.....
I guess there's a conservative tilt to this board then, lol!
Not to worry. By 'classical' liberal I mean classical English liberalism. It combines a robust empiricism with a jealous regard for freedom, a healthy scepticism, and a deep and abiding suspicion of the state.
It is rooted in the centuries old tradition of English liberty, but its modern formulation begins with the Whigs. And so that is the tradition I come out of. The one that gave us modern, limited government and checks on the power of the state. I'm what you might call a nineteenth century liberal in the John Stuart Mill tradition.
It's much closer to your founding tradition than what you understand by the term 'liberal' today.
Modern American Conservatism/Classical Liberalism
(adapted from Wiki)
Modern American Conservatism (MAC)/Classical liberalism (also known as traditional liberalism[1], laissez-faire liberalism[2], and market liberalism[3] or, outside the United States and Britain, sometimes simply liberalism is a doctrine stressing individual freedom, free markets, and limited government. This includes the importance of human rationality, individual property rights, natural rights, the protection of civil liberties, individual freedom from restraint, equality under the law, constitutional limitation of government, free markets, and a gold standard to place fiscal constraints on government as exemplified in the writings of John Locke, Adam Smith, David Hume, David Ricardo, Voltaire, Montesquieu and others.
As such, it is the fusion of economic liberalism with political liberalism of the late 18th and 19th centuries. The "normative core" of MAC/classical liberalism is the idea that laissez-faire economics will bring about a spontaneous order or invisible hand that benefits the society, though it does not necessarily oppose the state's provision of some basic public goods with what constitutes public goods being seen as very limited. The qualification classical was applied retroactively to distinguish it from more recent, 20th-century conceptions of liberalism and its related movements, such as social liberalism MACs promote strong national defense and necessary regulation to prevent the citiziens/states from doing violence to each other, but are otherwise suspicious of all but the most minimal government necessary to perform its Constitutional mandates and object to most of a federal welfare state.
Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman, are credited with influencing a revival of classical liberalism in the twentieth century after it fell out of favor beginning in the late nineteenth century and much of the twentieth century. In relation to economic issues, this revival is sometimes referred to, mainly by its opponents, as "neoliberalism". The German "ordoliberalism" has a whole different meaning, since the likes of Alexander Rüstow and Wilhelm Rööpke have advocated a more interventionist state, as opposed to laissez-faire liberals. Classical liberalism has many aspects in common with modern libertarianism, with the terms being used almost interchangeably by those who support limited government.