Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Conservatives and Libertarians
In “Redeeming The Time,” Russell
Kirk said that libertarians live by one simple principle, the notion
of personal freedom as the whole end of the civil order, and even of
human existence.
They carry the 19th century
abstractions of John Stuart Mill on liberty to absurdity.
The only thing true conservatives share
with libertarians is a detestation of collectivism, and they share
nothing else.
There is no great gulf between
libertarianism and libertinism.
The final emancipation for religion,
convention, custom and order is annihilation.
Liberty and justice are established
only after order is secured, without the state man's life work would
be brutal and short.
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