[Download] "The Tyrannical Logic of Liberalism (Articles)" by National Observer - Australia and World Affairs # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: The Tyrannical Logic of Liberalism (Articles)
- Author : National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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The tyranny of liberalism seems a paradox. Liberals say that they favour freedom, reason and the well-being of ordinary people. Many people consider them high-minded and fair to a fault, "too broadminded to take their own side in a quarrel", too soft to govern effectively. Even the word "liberal" suggests "liberty". How can such an outlook and the social order it promotes be tyrannical? The answer is that wanting freedom is not the same as having it. Political single-mindedness leads to oppression and a tyranny of freedom and equality is no less possible than one of virtue or religion. We cannot be forced to be free or made equal by command, but since the French Revolution the attempt has become all too common and the results have often been tyrannical.