[lbo-talk] Liberalism (Was Re: Nietzsche)

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>>
>On Jul 3, 2007, at 12:28 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> > What's your alternative? Which of:
> >
> > competitive elections
> > universal suffrage
> > extensive civil and political liberties
> > democratic decisionmaking (as opposed to imposition of
> > someone's idea of the good life will-we-nil-we)
>
>You keep listing these as attributes of liberalism, but 19th century
>liberals weren't terribly interested in lots of them ...

Not to mention 20th and 21st century liberals haven't been interested in 
lots of them.  AFAIC, the practice of singing hosannas to liberalism should 
have expired with Isaiah Berlin.

Carl

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