Or you can analyze ideology as a grid with personal liberty on one axis and economic liberty on an other axis, in which case certain extremes are in different quadrants, but would not be extreme opposites of each other.
David Shemano ^^^^^^^ CB: The problem with this formulation is that personal liberty is dependent upon economic liberty. If an individual doesn't have work and income, she cannot be personally free. Personal liberty and economic liberty are not at opposite ends of the axis. So, communists are not less concerned about personal liberty than libertarians. Communist aren't going to let you claim that. Capitalism, (which libertarians support , no ? ) is just as authoritarian as communism. Capitalism represses individual liberty through the combined authority of the classical state power and the statelike power exercised by bourgeois, private corporations and bosses. Capitalist corporations repress individual liberty extraordinarily. No job, no freedom, so the power to fire is authoritarian , individual repressing power and a form of state power , essentially. When the libertarian analysis ignores the role of bourgeois private enterprise, private state power in corporations and companies, it allows itself to pretend that it defends individual or personal liberty more than communists. Private property is repressive of the individual liberty of all but a rich elite of owners of big property. "Free" enterprise is not freeing for the vast majority of the population, the working masses who depend on wage-labor,jobe, to survive. The "free" market is authoritarian and repressive, not liberating. The right to private property in the basic means of production is not protective of the private lives and perrsonal liberty of the vast majority of the People. Moorism: Replace capitalism with democracy. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
