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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:50:42 MET
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- From: Grzegorz Albinowski <caius@II.UJ.EDU.PL>
- Subject: accepted termninology ?
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- james p mcbride
- >You appear to have very simplistic definitions. "Conservative" does not
- >exclusively mean "support for free-market". Indeed, I would almost prefer to
- >use the term "Manchester Liberals", because it was a group of Liberal (note:
- >NOT 'l'iberal economists who developed the free-market theory which Thatcher
- >and Reagan adopted to their own use during the 1980's.
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- Look what has happened to the terminology (to our ideals):
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- classical meaning "widely accepted" term now
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- liberal=free market supporter liberal=socialist
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- democracy=Montesqieu's executive, democracy=dictatorship of the
- legislative, juridical powers "minorities" (gay etc)
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- freedom to possess, to work freedom to earn, have home etc.
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- equal citizen rights "rights" for minorities
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- conservatives=supporters of conservatives=communists in Moscow
- tradition of free market
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- rightists=cons, laisse-fairists rightist=nazis
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- Do you understand, now, why Caius fights for our terminolgy?
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- laisser-faire is the last term I have, but it is under attack now.
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- Conservatives support free market *because* it is traditional and just.
- Manchester Liberals support free market *because* it is free and effective.
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- Caius, and many other people, support free market for all four reasons above.
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- Classical Caius
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