Status Updates From The Lost History of Liberal...

The two types of liberalisms.

On hämmästelty miten Trumpin kaltainen idiootti voidaan valita USA:n presidentiksi. Tosiasiassa 1700-luvun lopulla ja 1800-luvulla Ranskassa demokratia synnytti ensin Robespierren terrorin, sitten Napoleonin yksivallan ja myöhemmin Napoleon III:nnen yksinvallan. 1900-luvulla demokratia synnytti Saksassa Hitlerin hallinnon.

1800-luvulla kysyttiin onko yleinen äänioikeus ja liberalismi edes kompatiibeleita.

"the great majority of nineteenth-century liberals, whether British, French, or German, were not all that adverse to government intervention. Nor did they advocate absolute property rights. And they certainly did not believe that individuals pursuing their own self-interest would spontaneously create a healthy wealth distribution or social harmony. They denounced selfishness and individualism at every opportunity."

The French politician and writer and his lover writer Germaine de Staël are described as main innovators of liberalism during French revolution.

Besides, "Early liberals were not democrats. ... Their reticence on this owed much to their experience with the Terror ... universal suffrage was introduced in France in 1792 .... the Convention [elected] launched the Reign of Terror".

Daron Acemoglu regards this book important. That is why I dtarted reading

Sounds very good.

- the connection of liberalism to individualism is a late phenomenon. (Artificial?)

- interesting how the same guy Robert Price - friend of e.g Jefferson and the leader of the Dissenting Community in England - comes up here - like in the connection to Bayesian statistics in the role of the First Bayesian and friend of Bayes