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To: Lane3 who wrote (7039)4/8/2002 7:23:29 PM
From: TimF   of 21057
 

Do you have anything to say on my marketplace-centric view of conservatism?


I would say that centering it just on the market place is too narrow to define most of those who would generally be called conservatives. What is seen as needing conserving goes beyond the marketplace and the economy. Of course there is the market place of ideas but any idea may compete there and both conservatives and liberals (and people who's views don't fit either term) can be relativly for or against a very free market in ideas.

I do think that free markets are a very important part of the conservatism because they are an important part of the western tradition that conservatives wish to keep alive. I would also say that I would be for them even if they where not part of the western tradition, for practical reasons and because I support freedom in general, but would this pragmatism and libertarianism be called conservatism? I don't know. I think they are compatable with each other but probably not the same thing.

Tim
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