Marxist Origins of Hate-Speech Legislation and Political Correctness
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in liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics Tags: free speech, political correctness
Rediscovering Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom
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Peter Lewin reminds how Friedman questioned JFK’s famous words against all odds:
I first read the following paragraph as a nerdy college student sometime between 1966 and 1968:
In a much quoted passage in his inaugural address, President Kennedy said, ‘Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.’ It is a striking sign of the temper of our times that the controversy about this passage centered on its origin and not on its content. Neither half of the statement expresses a relation between citizen and his government that is worthy of the ideals of free men in a free society.”
This is the first paragraph of chapter one of Milton Friedman’s classic little book Capitalism and Freedom (C&F), first published by the University of Chicago Press in 1962, and since republished numerous times unaltered. The italics are mine.
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in economics of regulation, politics - USA, television Tags: gun control, West Wing
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in applied price theory, industrial organisation Tags: competition and monopoly, creative destruction
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in discrimination, gender, television Tags: political correctness




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