“These statues have a complex history. They were not erected to honor the Confederate dead following the war or even at the end of Reconstruction. Most appeared in the early 1920s to send a message that the race-relation liberalization that happened between 1880 and 1900 would not return. The progress and normalcy would be replaced by a racist/statist/“progressive” movement rallying around new eugenic laws, zoning, white supremacy, forced exclusion, state segregation and so on—policies supported not by the people but by white elites infected with demographic fear and pseudo-science. This is when a movement started putting up these statues, not to honor history but as a symbol of intimidation and state control of association.”
― Right-Wing Collectivism: The Other Threat to Liberty
― Right-Wing Collectivism: The Other Threat to Liberty
“lo largo de la historia, las religiones y las ideologías no sacralizaron la vida. Siempre sacralizaron algo situado por encima o más allá de la existencia terrenal y, en consecuencia, fueron muy tolerantes con la muerte.”
― Homo Deus: Breve historia del mañana
― Homo Deus: Breve historia del mañana
“He urges them to stop believing that they are “conservative” and should therefore tolerate a little the drift into fascism, the better to get tax reform.”
― Right-Wing Collectivism: The Other Threat to Liberty
― Right-Wing Collectivism: The Other Threat to Liberty
“The progress of the last 500 years shows us precisely what the good ideas are: social harmony, human rights, the aspiration of universal dignity, the conviction that we can work together in mutual advantage, the market economy as a means of peace and prosperity, and, above all else, the beauty and magnificence of the idea of liberty itself.”
― Right-Wing Collectivism: The Other Threat to Liberty
― Right-Wing Collectivism: The Other Threat to Liberty
“Freedom is threatened from two ends, the right and left. The idea of liberty really does represent a third way, a path lit by the hope in the kind of civilization that can be built not from the top down but from the bottom up, not through the force of power but by voluntary associations of regular people who aspire to live better lives.”
― Right-Wing Collectivism: The Other Threat to Liberty
― Right-Wing Collectivism: The Other Threat to Liberty
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