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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (35847)4/25/1999 11:48:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Christine, what I wrote is that "libertarians ARE liberals...if the term 'liberal' is used in its original meaning."

I had in mind "classical liberalism", from which both "modern" liberalism and libertarianism are descended.

If you are interested, here is a rather nice discussion of the evolution of liberalism (from the on-line Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy):

plato.stanford.edu

Joan
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