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Why then did communism implode? Because in the end the system was working so badly that even the nomenklatura got fed up and threw in the towel. The Marxists have correctly pointed out that a social system collapses when the ruling class becomes demoralized and loses its will to power; manifest failure of the communist system brought about that demoralization. But doing nothing, or relying only on educating the elites in correct ideas, will mean that our own statist system will not end until our entire society, like that of the Soviet Union, has been reduced to rubble. Surely, we must not sit still for that. A strategy for liberty must be far more active and aggressive.
Hence the importance, for libertarians or for minimal government conservatives, of having a one-two punch in their armor: not simply of spreading correct ideas, but also of exposing the corrupt ruling elites and how they benefit from the existing system, more specifically how they are ripping us off. Ripping the mask off elites is "negative campaigning" at its finest and most fundamental.
-- "Right-Wing Populism", 1992
Agarraste al Rothbard en su etapa mas derechosa, que se aliaba con Pat Buchanan, y se hacía llamar paleo-libertarian, prefiero al Rothbard que se consideraba heredero de la Old Right, y al Rothbard que intentaba estrechar lazos, de manera infructuosa, con la New Left.
ReplyDeletePor suerte, antes de dejarnos, reconoció que Buchanan no era ningún aliado para la libertad.