In a crisis that was largely caused by government yet is being sold as largely a crisis of markets, libertarianism (hell, any vestige of market freedom at all) is seen by public intellectuals on all sides as staggering on the ropes, moments from the sort of embarrassing face plant that its detractors just find too delicious to look away from. It’s exactly when the so-called serious thinkers have decided that we’re all socialists now that the libertarian job of pointing out the problems with socialism becomes most important. The core ideas behind libertarianism remain the very ideas that have moved the world’s hugest political events, from the American revolution to the collapse of Communism. That human beings should have the widest possible range to shape their own lives in peace, and that we must discover and fiercely police the limits of where force should enter human relations, must remain our highest political goals.
Brian Doherty: liberalismo en tiempos de crisis económica
