[lbo-talk] A Draft: "Individualism" vs "The Individual"

Eubulides autoplectic at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 22:11:44 PDT 2012


On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


> This is quite good. The "dot-like existence of the mere free worker" gets
> its ultimate emphasis in the totalitarian state. In a way Thatcher was
> consistent: If you see each person as an isolated -- abstract -- atom, then
> 'society' has to be created by force.

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Andrew Gamble; "Hayek: the Iron Cage of Liberty"

Coercion free societies are one of the oldest fantasies, right up there with the fantasies of omniscience, omnipotence and omnibenevolence.



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