Sentences with phrase «libertarianism as»

To be honest, whilst I love the UK's National Health Service, I'm increasingly heading towards Libertarianism as the political mess created in the UK over this issue alone is just appalling.

Thus, Libertarianism as ideology is self - refuting.

It is a common fallacy to present practical effects of libertarianism as if they refute libertarianism.

A controversial area for Blunkett was civil liberties, and he described civil libertarianism as «airy fairy».

They have lost the capacity to develop a middle - class narrative against the Democrats» cultural libertarianism as part of an agenda of pro-family public policy.

Not exact matches

Mr. Thiel has long stood out in Silicon Valley for his vocal libertarianism, but he drew heavy criticism from many tech - industry peers — including fellow Facebook board member Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix Inc. — when he backed Mr. Trump's presidential campaign and later served as an adviser on his White House transition team.

The assumptions of cutthroat libertarianism were so embedded in the worldview of these lucky newcomers that they spoke as though the victims of tech - fueled displacement and gentrification had chosen to live in poverty and squalor, just as they themselves chose to learn to code, chose a management - track job at a major corporation, and chose to set themselves up for a comfortable upper - middle - class suburban life.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

As John Milbank and Adrian Pabst put it in their new book The Politics of Virtue, contemporary political culture is the product of a convergence of two strains of liberalism: a leftist cultural libertarianism that took off during the 1960s and 1970s, and a rightwing free - market liberalism that reached its apogee with the Reagan - Thatcher alliance.

So to truly apply the mindset of Madison today means to admit what he couldn't quite see: that just as air is to the regrettable existence of fire, and as liberty is to the regrettable existence of faction, so is modern republican government to the regrettable existence of various at - bottom - suicidal democratic mindsets: progressivism, democratic socialism, militant secularism, and libertarianism.

If those guys are largely right about the incentive factors that would then come into play (and especially if Americans were moderating their economic libertarianism with devotion to family, virtue, community, and God, as your work would urge them to), then by no means would that cause the social welfare policy disaster most liberals assume it would.

Kruse describes their agenda as «Christan libertarianism.»

The result, as Pierre Manent and others have observed, is a paradoxical coincidence of absolutism and libertarianism, indeed an absolutism that grows in proportion to the increase in liberty.

So if, as Brands argues, libertarianism is genuinely American and moralistic communitarianism is not, this may be evidence not of the strange death but of the everlasting life of American liberalism.

In asking such a question, he offered us a perspective that cuts against both the statist liberalism that is now in power and the anti-statist libertarianism that asserts itself as statism's only principled alternative.

She expounded her philosophy, which she called objectivism, in nonfiction works and as editor of two journals and became an icon of radical libertarianism.»

I think the philosophies of Christianity and Libertarianism are VERY compatible and can be summed up in the verse «Do onto others as you would have them do to you»

Any sense of common life nearly vanished, and the faculty adopted a kind of social libertarianism — it kept the common educational core as minimal as possible.

(Perhaps there are similar issues for libertarianisms of the right as well as the left).

(3) General unpopularity of libertarianism - though you make a good point that Hobbes - vs - Rousseau is a factor here as well; (4) Identity politics.

They may well be strongly motivated by ideological commitment to libertarianism (the political philosophy which prioritises individuals excitingly pursuing their self - interest) and faith in the powers of new transformative technologies as well as in the few genius individual entrepreneurs who will lead us into a new kind of post-bureaucratic and post-state society.

I take offense at the Libertarianism tag (or would if it was an actual word) being applied... This is about anarchism which is not a Libertarian philosophy regardless how much both the left and the right want to paint it as such.

About libertarianism being a strain of conservatism, well, it's debatable (I'm not saying it's false, just that's not consensual)... since libertarian transhumanists are not so uncommon, I didn't consider then in my question as a possible answer.

I added the libertarianism tag as the premise of the question seems to be build on some libertarian definition of «rights» (which isn't necessarily how others would use the term).

«I am proposing that as a party we focus on our policies, cementing libertarianism into our DNA.

«Liberal» in USA has several meanings, mainly, either (1) «classical liberal» (which in USA is typically branded as «libertarianism» - although it's still called plain «liberalism» in Europe where the term originated); and, wholly independently, (2) «political liberal» - which is a self - made late 20th century [1] rebrand of what used to be called «progressive» (and can be loosely branded «left wing» at times, but personally I absolutely abhore single - axis left / right positioning) position.

No As a general rule, libertarianism is opposed to changes imposed by majority rule over the objections of a minority.

Both interventions strike me as knee - jerk libertarianism and they ignore the important role that law plays in setting the rules of the free market game.

As another Tory who felt rather uncomfortable at the rampant libertarianism on show at the Freedom Zone I couldn't agree more.

Civil libertarianism is a strain of political thought that supports civil liberties, or which emphasizes the supremacy of individual rights and personal freedoms over and against any kind of authority (such as a state, a corporation, social norms imposed through peer pressure, etc.).

As an ex-Libertarian Party member, I am perhaps in a better position than Mark to evaluate what's wrong with Libertarianism.

This may be because of innate suspicion of «big science» (which climate science has become, with powerful patrons in government and UN and international institutions) or because of a commitment to forms of data and knowledge libertarianism, as in the Wikileaks movement.

The contrasting political theory was and is known to Chinese thinkers as Confucianism and to us as libertarianism and democracy.

There is an argument for utilitarian calculations such as these, but they are arguments that sit uncomfortably with libertarianism, a point well made by analysts elsewhere at the Cato Institute.

«Libertarianism» becomes an encompassing explanation of his own sense of inertia, just as «the climate» serves as an encompassing account of all that is wrong with the world.

A sense of persecution and ill - traeatment (usually these days once again dressed upon as libertarianism and clap - trap about the evils of multiculturalism; railing about anti-Americanism and so on.)

The editor of Reason magazine (a libertarian glossy monthly with obvious ties to Objectivism) didn't know what to make of it — as it would seem to be the attempt to wed Libertarianism to some form of theocratic government.

@Freelander When i get a moment, i plan a piece demolishing this line of research, which is exactly as you describe it, silly - clever schoolboy libertarianism done by people old and smart enough to know better.

Generally speaking, libertarianism believes that governments should be as small as possible, and have as little influence on an individual's life as possible.

Likewise, libertarianism is completely against anything that one could describe as a nanny state.

Libertarianism generally aims to to have little to no taxes at all, as many civil services would be privatized and paid for on an as - needed basis.