Before critiquing libertarianism, it’s important to understand where it came from – and why other ways of governance eventually became more popular in the western world. Before the Industrial Revolution Although it seems inconceivable in today’s democratic capitalist societies, once upon a tim[...]
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Contra Libertarianism II:
History – The Future as the Past?
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