June 19th, 2008, 11:08 PM
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Tolstoy's Majority
Tolstoy's Majority
by Karen Kwiatkowski
This talk was delivered at the Future of Freedom Foundation’s conference on
"Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties," on June 8, 2008, in Reston, Virginia.
We – and not just those of us attending this wonderful conference – understand that the American imperial experiment is ending. The results were not as the experimenters envisioned. Yet the results have been very much as the anti-federalists foresaw, as the so-called Old Right witnessed against, and as many in this room, and by extension, their extensive networks of free market ideology and small-L libertarianism implicitly understand.
The American Empire is over. Our fiat money is increasingly valueless and garners a generalized disgust around the world. Our economic engine was once driven by a purer form of capitalism and by people who could think and compete, and aspired to do so. Today, we find an American version of national socialism, where the subsidized and intensely regulated planes and trains don’t really run on time, but we are sublimely grateful for the government’s assistance and leadership just the same.
MORE- http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkows...kowski204.html
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