Who are the 'illiberal ones'?
The story of America is the story of the struggle between two political imperatives.
On one side are those who seek to control and enslave. On the other are those who want people—all people—to be free.
“Nikole Hannah-Jones, the architect of the 1619 Project, says that capitalism is a systemic tool of oppression. She tries to say it with a straight face. But oppression is coercion, and coercion is illiberal. Socialism, communism, fascism, and corporatism theepochtimes.com/the-1619-proje…… https://t.co/Evar0PyMK1
“Everyone who has watched the growth of these movements in Italy or in Germany has been struck by the number of leading men, from Mussolini downward, who began as socialists and ended as Fascists or Nazis…
Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.” - Hayek
Full article adapted from script by Bruce Pardy & me in Epoch Times here.
Bruce Pardy is executive director of Rights Probe (RightsProbe.org) and professor of law at Queen’s University.