James Baker’s Reviews > Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement > Status Update
James Baker
is on page 83 of 741
Hes far too uncritical of people like Mises and Menger. I don’t doubt anything the author says per se, but I wonder what he’s omitting.
— Nov 14, 2022 11:21PM
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James Baker
is on page 63 of 741
They don’t teach you shit in school lmao. John Flynn foreshadowed Road to Serfdom in equating FDR with Mussolini.
— Nov 14, 2022 11:07PM
James Baker
is on page 38 of 741
Two unexpected parallels with the radical left: a dichotomy between the productive/proletariat and the predatory/bourgeoisie, albeit with different labeling s of who was in each camp, and secondly, the fact that many people like Proudhon and Josiah Warren saw themselves as advocates for individual Liberty despite having different economic takes as libertarians
— Nov 13, 2022 03:55PM
James Baker
is on page 30 of 741
I like that he acknowledges that “laissez faire” was an idea not a thing that actually happened in practice. However, I think he’s too quick to deny that 19th century America was not much closer to a libertarian economy than nowadays. It’s hard to measure “economic freedom” but by many proxies like size of g’v’t/ amount of regulation/ etc the gilded age was very different from now
— Nov 13, 2022 03:45PM
