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Post-modern liberalism didn't spring full-blown into being like Athena from
the forehead of Zeus. It evolved rather over time from classical
liberalism
through several fairly-distinct phases.
You're right on this. But it might be more accurate to say that at any
given t
From: Bryan Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Kevin Carson's remarks on Kolko reminded me that I recently reread Kolko
and had some comments to share.
Just for background: Kolko's *Triumph of Conservatism* was written largely
as a left-wing attack on mainstream liberalism. Kolko's message was that
m
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but can't be sure. - - Bill Dickens
In a message dated 6/19/03 6:28:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>The main "good" it provides is a negative one, that of keeping homelessness
>
>and starvation to a low enough level to prevent political instability.
>
This of course presumes that the welfare state reduces homelessness and
starva
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> The main "good" it provides is a negative one, that of keeping
>> homelessness and starvation to a low enough level to prevent
>> political instability.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This of course presumes that the welfare state reduces homelessness
> and starvation rat
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In a message dated 6/19/03 6:28:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>The main "good" it provides is a negative one, that of keeping
homelessness
>
>and starvation to a low enough level to prevent political instability.
>
This of course presumes that the welfare state reduces
In a message dated 6/19/03 10:28:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>In a message dated 6/19/03 6:28:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>
>> >The main "good" it provides is a negative one, that of keeping
>>homelessness
>> >
>> >and starvation to a low enough level t
In a message dated 6/19/03 9:40:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >> The main "good" it provides is a negative one, that of keeping
> >> homelessness and starvation to a low enough level to prevent
> >> political instability.
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > This of
I think in all fairness that the mixture of people with differing ideologies
among the Progressives (or New Liberals as they were called in Britain)
shifted substantially over the period from 1890 to 1940 from primarily
libertarianish to primarily statist, and that the shift followed a fairly st