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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: jbe who wrote (36287)4/29/1999 10:58:00 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
<<And since I was educated as an historian, I do tend to think that knowing the history of a concept is essential to understanding it in the present. Chalk that up to professional prejudice, if you will.<g>>>

This is exactly where we begin to disagree. While there are many lessons in history if we are willing to first find out the actual facts of what happened--these are almost never available in America until college level history, which probably explains why uneducated Americans in my experience seem to be more patriotic than most college grads--I do not see in practical terms how an understanding of the history of liberalism/libertarianism is crucial to comparing the two philosophies as they exist in the political debate right now.

In other words, libertarianism is NOT liberal at all in my opnion, if the term liberalism is defined as it is meant in contemporary American politics. And an understanding of the historical meaning of these two terms does not make it so.
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