Word: libertarianism
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...instruction manual given to all section leaders to reflect different approaches to central economic issues. It also calls for the reinstitution of the radical sections, and for the development of a variety of alternative sections offering supplementary material with different perspectives on neo-classical economics, such as libertarian or institutional economics...
Knowing the nature of many opponents of the libertarian-militarist tradition (that's a more accurate label. I think, than "conservative.") I could imagine a comment like "Conservatives Suck" or "RcaGan is a Dick...
...always seemed to me that anti-liberals who take pen to hand, like George Will or that effete maniac William F. Buckley Jr. are fairly intelligent. And while the anti-libertarian-militarist tradition can be bastardized and profanely expressed in ignorant, duosyllabie terms (pick up the latest "Worker's Vanguard" and you'll see what I mean the anti-liberal argument...
...conservative argument, at least the way I've always heard it best explicated, involves no such complicated reasoning. At heart, libertarian militarism merely affirms that "man must be free." Thence flow the arguments for dynamiting the Department of Health and Human Services and so forth, in hopes of getting government out of the middle class's face and maximizing aggregate freedom in society. Also, the "man must be free" orthodoxy leads to things like B-1B bombers and ROTC to crush communism, fascism and other systems resembling the Soviet Union, all of which curtail freedom. It's a pretty good...
...second place, libertarian militarists--at least in Massachusetts, where the bench I was sitting on is located--are a minority. And therefore, to be effective, libertarian militarists must present a cogent., coherent, obviously persuasive dogma. Liberals in Massachusetts can trust in a wave of popular sentiment among the Commonwealth's Volvo-drivers and Burger King employees to absolve them of forensic shortcomings. Hence the viability of "ConserviTives Suck" as political propaganda...