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If social conditions did not fulfill the wishes of the reformers, if their Utopias proved unrealizable, the fault was seen in the moral failure of man. Social problems were considered ethical problems. What was needed in order to construct
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“Having said that Individuality is the same thing with development, and that it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well-developed human beings, I might here close the argument: for what more or better can be said of any condition of human affairs, than that it brings human beings themselves nearer to the best thing they can be?”
― On Liberty
― On Liberty
“Anticapitalism can maintain itself in existence only by sponging on capitalism.”
― Liberalism
― Liberalism
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Including within it neo-liberalism, libertarianism, objectivism, anarcho-capitalism, minarchism, and American conservatism, this classical or "market" ...more
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How do, I will be here to discuss my new book Never Allow A Crisis To Go To Waste: Barack Obama and the Evolution of American Socialism during Ja ...more
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