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Your definition of the words liberalism and conservative truly escapes logic.
How
can a closed communist society of Eastern Europe be described as "liberal"?
In the same vein, how can the socialist economic policies of India a few years
ago
be described as liberal?
For you it seems, that every system that has failed, without understanding its
reasons for failure, is a liberal system.
-Tariq
--- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Santosh,
>
> Actually, in your praise of liberalism you must be
> talking about classic social liberalism, which was
> good, not the modern political version, which, in the
> economic sphere is rooted in socialism, which is being
> consigned around the world to the dustbin of history,
> where it belongs.
>
> Liberalism is being held responsible for the economic
> and social malaise in Europe, and they are now
> realizing that their policies are not working out,
> with high inflation and unemployment rates and
> economic stagnation. In India and China, changing
> from the liberal socialist policies of the past is
> being called "liberalization", which is a clever word
> to describe a move towards free markets and free trade
> and less government interference in the economy, which
> are conservative ideals.
>
> It is also good to be a conservative. Conservatism is
> one of the best things that ever happened to this
> world. Many of the greatest minds that have lived on
> this planet have been conservatives. They are
> responsible for saving the world from the Nazis, the
> Fascists, the Communists and the Imperialists. Most
> of our scientific and technological progress comes
> from the fruits of capitalism and conservative free
> market economics, and people from around the world
> have left their liberal countries and come to the
> conservative economic system in the US to prosper and
> earn Nobel Prizes over here.
>
>
>
>
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