--- Elisabeth Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First of all, Mario citing a flaming liberal like > Friedrick von Hayek is like the devil quoting the > scripture:) and then both Fred and Mario kick Ayn > Rand in the stomach. That's too much for a girl > like me to take in one morning :)) > > Can you guys please wear your labels neat and nice, > so I know what I'm dealing with :)) > Mario clarifies: > Elisabeth, You need to be careful not to confuse classic liberal democrats, who stood for free market capitalism, with modern political liberals who follow a socialist philosophy. For example, President John F. Kennedy, a Democrat who believed in a strong national defense and lower taxes, would be a total misfit in the modern Democrat party, dominated by his ultra-socialist brother, Ted Kennedy. > Thus Friedrich von Hayek was not a flaming liberal in the modern political context. Here is how Fred's favorite encyclopedia describes him: > "Friedrich August von Hayek (May 8, 1899 in Vienna March 23, 1992 in Freiburg) was an Austrian economist and political philosopher, noted for his defense of liberal democracy and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought in the mid-20th century" > I had no intentions of kicking Ayn anywhere - only to emphasize the free market economists and philosophers that I favor the most. She definitely belongs to my end of the philosophical spectrum, but because she used fiction as her medium, and was personally a hedonist and libertine, she is easily vilified and deliberately misunderstood by the other end, as Fred illustrated. >
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