On another thread, Paul Hsieh linked to this book and said: As economist Arnold Kling notes, conservatives often frame issues in terms of civilization-vs-barbarism, progressives in terms of oppressors-vs-oppressed, and libertarians in terms of freedom-vs-compulsion. Each group thinks their own axis is the primary (even if they can relate to the others axes.) And each thinks the others issues just arent as important is their own primary axis. I shall have to read the book, and I like the descriptions, but I personally see no difference between Klings progressive and libertarian approach, except in application. To me, oppressors v oppressed is the same as freedom v compulsion. But the progressive merely wants to become the oppressor because his ideas are better than whatever institutions are currently oppressing him.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:31:40 +0000
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