Helen Pluckrose
This is a contribution to Symposium No. 1, our invitation to explore and explain the basic principles of a liberal outlook.
Liberalism is a much misunderstood word. In the US, it can be used to mean left. In the UK, it is often understood as centrist, and in Australia, it can be taken to refer to the conservative party. However,
liberalism is not a political position. It is a set of values that seeks to defend every person s freedom (individualism), tolerate and even appreciate difference (pluralism) and recognise and value our shared humanity and see in it a moral responsibility to ensure that the same rights, freedoms, and responsibilities belong to everybody (universalism.) Liberalism, therefore, can be at home on the left where it mixes with left-wing aims to distribute goods more evenly to enable everyone to reach their potential, or on the right where its concepts of freedom extend more into the realm of markets and overlap with libertarianism.
The Katz Challenge: The BIG PICTURE
The headline question from the challenge including the
bolding is as follows:
Is it inherent in the nature of free market capitalism for the most wealthy individuals and/or corporations to capture government power?
–Mr. Katz
also caught my attention – – –
I believe hierarchy is a natural and necessary development of a functioning economy and society. But it seems to me most people believe in “equality” and that the dangers I have described are the results of capitalism itself.
–Mr. Katz
it seems to me most people believe in ‘equality’ ” phrase, I
almost completely disagree, and suggest that that notion is not only incorrect but dangerous to liberty.
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