1 Comment

  1. spago
    13 May 2014 @ 08:51

    I still don't understand how to write in good faith that the current crisis proves the failure of liberalism.. sorry eh.. maybe liberalism will suck, but to prove it, we need coherent examples.. he is sure he knows what it is first? we have not lived in a liberal period, there is no liberalism, indeed there is its opposite: there are central banks, the manipulation of money, the states, bureaucracies, the cup, regulations at every level, the state that intervenes in the economy, i salvatggi, subsidies, etc.. and this also applies to America, the country from which the crisis started.. and if you read the serious reconstructions of this crisis, also made by those who have nothing to do with libertarian thought, from Zingales to Seminerio e.g.. it will find the role of the American state and politics. So how can we say that the statism we live in proves that the absence of a state is harmful? how can you take the “market” current – especially the banking sector where central banks exist, control of money, fractional reserve, one thousand thousand regulations, political pressure to do this or that, from lending to buying public debt – as an example of a free market in a libertarian sense? it is a market as it were, it is an apparent market, since it lives in the residual space left to it and is deformed in every way by public intervention. Left to itself in a libertarian sense, maybe it would break down for charity , but surely it would completely change shape. How many large companies live on political favors, of monopolies guaranteed by politics, of subsidies or incentives, of ad hoc measures and how many are killed by excess taxation? among them there are all those cases where the government takes over and clears the debts or where it is in charge of putting together consortiums of entrepreneurs-healers guaranteeing them special conditions.. in short, there are precisely those bailouts of banks and financial companies that have made people indignant during this crisis. Libertarians are even against any form of taxation.. so how do you bring in good faith the example of citizens forced to pay huge sums to fill holes? or she did not understand or seems to me in bad faith. How can liberal government speak of these things which are the opposite of liberalism? God.

    Reply

Leave a Reply to spagoCancel reply