All Posts Tagged With: "Left"
Leaking Left and Right
When what you’re seeking through politics is simply “more,” there’s no principled way to say when enough is enough.
15Nov2011 | Sandy Ikeda | 11 comments | ContinuedThe First Leftist
This article appeared in FEE’s Essays on Liberty, volume 1 (1952). It was originally published separately as a pamphlet in 1951. The first Leftist would not be popular in America today. That is true because the original Leftists wanted to abolish government controls over industry, trade, and the professions. They wanted wages, prices, and profits [...]
4Feb2011 | Dean Russell | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Left, The Right, and the State
The Left, The Right, and The State, a collection of 103 essays by Llewellyn Rockwell, looks at the ways both the left and right use the State to pursue their goals. Rockwell, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, argues forcefully that our liberty and property are endangered equally by left-wing and right-wing statism. As [...]
23Oct2009 | George C. Leef | 4 comments | ContinuedInterpreting the State of the World
Why are optimists about the state of the world disproportionately represented by classical liberals, libertarians, and free- market conservatives, while pessimists about the state of the world are disproportionately represented by statists? Why do left-leaning media such as the New York Times and CNN devote so much ink and airtime alleging that middle-class Americans have made [...]
1Jun2008 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedStill Neither Left Nor Right
We live in a time when virtually all political parties and candidates stand for the same fundamental ideological idea: state interventionism and compulsory redistribution.This also applies to the mainstream media. Even many who say they adhere to a pro-market view of things in fact turn out to be only more moderate advocates of government regulations and welfare-state programs.
1Jan2006 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedNeither Left Nor Right
“Why, you are neither left nor right!” This observation, following a speech of mine, showed rare discernment. It was rare because I have seldom heard it made. It was discerning because it was accurate. Most of us seem always to be reaching for word simplifications—handy generalizations—for they often aid speech. They take the place of [...]
1Jan2006 | Leonard E. Read | 2 comments | ContinuedNeither Left nor Right
The problem with the pendulum approach is that Adam Smith is characterized as “extreme” as Karl Marx. By implication, neither economist is sensible.
1Jul2000 | Mark Skousen | 0 comments | ContinuedStaring into Chaos: Explorations in the Decline of Western Civilization
The right is temperamentally pessimistic. The left is philosophically nihilistic. Both camps have long tended to see the West as culturally decadent, a civilization in decline. So it is odd that, for decades, virtually every major English-language reference work in the social sciences included articles about progress, but not its opposite. It was as though [...]
1Oct1999 | Gleaves Whitney | 0 comments | ContinuedCoercivists and Voluntarists
Categorizing a political position according to some simple left-right scale of values leaves something to be desired. Political views cover such a wide variety of issues that it is impossible to describe adequately any one person merely by identifying where he sits on a lone horizontal line. Use of the single left-right scale makes impossible [...]
1Aug1997 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 4 comments | ContinuedNeither Left Nor Right
Mr. Read is President of the Foundation for Economic Education. “Why, you are neither Left nor Right!” This observation, following a speech of mine, showed rare discernment. It was rare because I have seldom heard it made. It was discerning because it was accurate. Most of us seem always to be reaching for word simplifications [...]
1Jan1956 | Leonard E. Read | 0 comments | Continued-
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