Conservatives Against Capitalism

Posted by $ MikeMarotta 10 years, 3 months ago to Philosophy
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Take it from The Savvy Street: "... or a century the deep thinkers on the conservative side have, almost without exception, argued that conservatives cannot be pro-capitalism. And the deep thinkers on the free-market capitalist side have, again almost without exception, gone out of their way to explain why they are not conservatives. And both sides are correct."

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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Do you mean that you hope that capitalist dynamism (globalism, secularism) dissolves cultural conservatism?"
    Yes. Some gov'ts would like to find a way to get the economic benefits of liberty without having a free society.

    I agree the trend is toward geographic boundaries being less important.
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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am not clear on what you mean. Do you mean that you hope that capitalist dynamism (globalism, secularism) dissolves cultural conservatism? I expect that it will in the long run. The trend of future history is toward one Earth. I am not sure that George Will would be happy about that.

    (I believe that pluralism, such as it may be, will be found among the solar colonies from Mercury to the Kuiper Belt.)
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 3 months ago
    "As the conservative columnist George Will nicely put it, we have to make a hard choice between two alternatives: “One is cultural conservatism. The other is capitalist dynamism. The latter dissolves the former.”
    China wants to have it both ways. I hope George Will is right on this point.
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