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To: Lane3 who wrote (13166)	5/18/2002 1:30:58 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

I guess I forgot the :-) in that post. What started this discussion is true, though. Periodically some left-of-center will announce they are center or even conservative. And I can recall no conservatives announcing they were center and certainly not liberal.

To: Lane3 who wrote (13166)	5/18/2002 2:51:53 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 21057

Like the term 'liberal', the term 'radical' has been used quite distantly from its original meaning ... it has come to denote 'extremist', but its root in latin simply means 'root', radix = 'roots', radic is the singular ... related to 'radish' obviously, so who knows maybe we'll see it used in place of calling others vegetables -g- .... but it just means a thinker who goes to the root of whatever question s/he is treating .... Adam Smith was a radical in his thought, in his way, he cut through down to what he perceived as the base of economics, then constructed a theory on that ... ditto Marx and Engels and many others .... two latter-day writers i think deserve the title 'radical' would be Hernando de Soto and Milton Friedman, they both attempt to cut to the root of what makes people's wheels go round, and i think they do a fair job of it .... as it happens, you could also call them 'conservative' in some respects, 'liberal' in the classic sense certainly, and 'capitalistic' without question ... yet they are radicals