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Title: The Libertarian Heritage: The American Revolution and Classical Liberalism
Source: mises.org
URL Source: https://mises.org/library/libertari ... ution-and-classical-liberalism
Published: May 16, 2016
Author: Murray N. Rothbard
Post Date: 2017-07-09 21:42:31 by Gatlin
Keywords: None
Views: 890
Comments: 5

[….] Americans were not always pragmatic and nonideological. On the contrary, historians now realize that the American Revolution itself was not only ideological but also the result of devotion to the creed and the institutions of libertarianism. The American revolutionaries were steeped in the creed of libertarianism, an ideology which led them to resist with their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor the invasions of their rights and liberties committed by the imperial British government. Historians have long debated the precise causes of the American Revolution: Were they constitutional, economic, political, or ideological? We now realize that, being libertarians, the revolutionaries saw no conflict between moral and political rights on the one hand and economic freedom on the other. On the contrary, they perceived civil and moral liberty, political independence, and the freedom to trade and produce as all part of one unblemished system, what Adam Smith was to call, in the same year that the Declaration of Independence was written, the "obvious and simple system of natural liberty."

The libertarian creed emerged from the "classical liberal" movements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Western world, specifically, from the English Revolution of the seventeenth century. This radical libertarian movement, even though only partially successful in its birthplace, Great Britain, was still able to usher in the Industrial Revolution there by freeing industry and production from the strangling restrictions of State control and urban government-supported guilds. For the classical liberal movement was, throughout the Western world, a mighty libertarian "revolution" against what we might call the Old Order — the ancien régime which had dominated its subjects for centuries. This regime had, in the early modern period beginning in the sixteenth century, imposed an absolute central State and a king ruling by divine right on top of an older, restrictive web of feudal land monopolies and urban guild controls and restrictions. The result was a Europe stagnating under a crippling web of controls, taxes, and monopoly privileges to produce and sell conferred by central (and local) governments upon their favorite producers. This alliance of the new bureaucratic, war-making central State with privileged merchants — an alliance to be called "mercantilism" by later historians — and with a class of ruling feudal landlords constituted the Old Order against which the new movement of classical liberals and radicals arose and rebelled in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The object of the classical liberals was to bring about individual liberty in all of its interrelated aspects. In the economy, taxes were to be drastically reduced, controls and regulations eliminated, and human energy, enterprise, and markets set free to create and produce in exchanges that would benefit everyone and the mass of consumers. Entrepreneurs were to be free at last to compete, to develop, to create. The shackles of control were to be lifted from land, labor, and capital alike. Personal freedom and civil liberty were to be guaranteed against the depredations and tyranny of the king or his minions. Religion, the source of bloody wars for centuries when sects were battling for control of the State, was to be set free from State imposition or interference, so that all religions — or nonreligions — could coexist in peace. Peace, too, was the foreign policy credo of the new classical liberals; the age-old regime of imperial and State aggrandizement for power and pelf was to be replaced by a foreign policy of peace and free trade with all nations. And since war was seen as engendered by standing armies and navies, by military power always seeking expansion, these military establishments were to be replaced by voluntary local militia, by citizen- civilians who would only wish to fight in defense of their own particular homes and neighborhoods.

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...the American Revolution itself was not only ideological but also the result of devotion to the creed and the institutions of libertarianism. The American revolutionaries were steeped in the creed of libertarianism, an ideology which led them to resist with their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor the invasions of their rights and liberties ...

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...the American Revolution itself was not only ideological but also the result of devotion to the creed and the institutions of libertarianism. The American revolutionaries were steeped in the creed of libertarianism, an ideology which led them to resist with their lives, teir fortunes, and their sacred honor the invasions of their rights and liberties ...

Understanding history as best we can is important for obvious reasons. It’s particularly important for libertarians who want to persuade people to the freedom philosophy. In making their case for individual freedom, mutual aid, social cooperation, foreign nonintervention, and peace, libertarians commonly place great weight on historical examples most often drawn from the early United States. So if they misstate history or draw obviously wrong conclusions, they will discredit their case. Much depends therefore on getting history right.

Libertarians naturally sense that their philosophy will be easier to sell to the public if they can root it in America's heritage. This is understandable. Finding common ground with someone you’re trying to persuade is a good way to win a fair hearing for your case. Well-known aspects of early American history, at least as it is usually taught, fit nicely with the libertarian outlook; these include Thomas Paine’s pamphlets, the opening passages of the Declaration of Independence, and popular animosity toward arbitrary British rule.

The problem arises when libertarians cherry-pick confirming historical anecdotes while distorting or ignoring deeper disconfirming evidence. The drawbacks to grounding the case for freedom in historical inaccuracies should be obvious. If a libertarian with a shaky historical story encounters someone with sounder historical knowledge, the libertarian is in for trouble. The point of discussing libertarianism with nonlibertarians is not to feel good but to persuade. If the history is wrong, why should anyone believe anything else the libertarian says?

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What Libertarians Get Wrong About American History

… libertarianism, an ideology which led them to resist with their lives …
Give me a friggin’ break …

Gatlin  posted on  2017-07-09   21:56:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Gatlin (#1)

What Libertarians Get Wrong About American History

… libertarianism, an ideology which led them to resist with their lives … Give me a friggin’ break …

Yeah. That's just nuts.

Vicomte13  posted on  2017-07-09   23:19:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Vicomte13 (#2)

Careful now! Don't bite down 'til you back it out.

Anthem  posted on  2017-07-09   23:45:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Gatlin (#0) (Edited)

The object of the classical liberals was to bring about individual liberty in all of its interrelated aspects.

To have this, you must have two governments, one external and a second internal in the form of personal inhibitions, self disciplines, and values. A society with a fifty percent out of wedlock birth rate, a mass of people on recreational drugs with their empty distorted heads somewhere in the clouds, and no sense of discipline or cause and effect in their personal lives has a far different conception of liberty than a well ordered individual.

What is missing is a basic condition of necessary sanity and integrity in the second government.

rlk  posted on  2017-07-10   0:11:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: wankerWillie gangGreen, fredbot, hondope, zulu, mau mau, hutus, lice, druids, morloks, 666ers (#0) (Edited)

what Adam Smith was to call, in the same year that the Declaration of Independence was written, the "obvious and simple system of natural liberty."

ThaT preTTy much means chaos - anarchy

screw loose liberTarians

Their moral compass - law is a junk magneT - opium den

a democracy - dungeon of weirdos - freaks - half wiTs

Love
boris

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predominanTly occupied happily by sado - masochisTs

If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !

BorisY  posted on  2017-07-10   1:10:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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