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 As strange as it may seem to say it, I think libertarianism has something in common with the great totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century. I know that libertarians are the polar opposite of totalitarianism in crucial respects. Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to tar libertarians as closet totalitarians. Here's what I'm getting at. If we go back to the great conservative Edmund Burke, we see that he was passionately opposed to the French revolution in part because it tried to impose an abstract constitution on France. Abstract constitutions, made up by philosophers and lawyers, ignore history, tradition, habit, and what Burke called "prejudice." The great totalitarians of the 20th century have done this with a vengeance. It seems to me that libertarians do it as well. They have a plan, a constitution, or blue print created entirely in the abstract; and they want to impose it on societies without regard for history and habit. |
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