>Reese made the ugly comment.
I apologize to the list in general, to Kelley and Gordon specifically.
Again, my goal was to confirm or refute something written by Hayek, as that initial query (below) and the first couple pages of Serfdom's Chapter 2 will confirm.
Reese
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At 10:45 AM 31/08/00 -0400, Gordon Fitch wrote:
>It's curious that personal autonomy is found, even assigned,
>to the Right, given that the Right is the party of
>authority, power, status, private wealth, order, and
>conformity, the friends of the King of France, while the
>Left is the party of freedom and equality. How'd that
>happen, anyway?
I think it stems from differences in how key terms are defined.
Take freedom and equality, for example; how do you define them?
How do you think someone from the other camp would define them?
Reese