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| Subject: Via Anarcho-Capitalists' Forum: Classical Liberalism versus Anarchocapitalism Fri Jan 31, 2014 2:56 am | |
| The Fatal Error of Classical Liberalism
The fatal error of classical liberals lies in their failure to realize that their ideal is theoretically impossible, as it contains the seed of its own destruction, precisely to the extent that it includes the necessary existence of a state (even a minimal one), understood as the sole agent of institutional coercion.
Therefore, classical liberals commit their great error in their approach: they view liberalism as a plan of political action and a set of economic principles, the goal of which is to limit the power of the state while accepting its existence and even deeming it necessary. However, today (in the first decade of the 21st century) economic science has already shown:
that the state is unnecessary; that statism (even if minimal) is theoretically impossible; and that, given human nature, once the state exists, it is impossible to limit its power.
More: http://mises.org/daily/3791 |
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| Subject: Re: Via Anarcho-Capitalists' Forum: Classical Liberalism versus Anarchocapitalism Fri Jan 31, 2014 3:00 am | |
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(Was about to post it myself) |
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