None of this is to say that it isn’t worth pointing out what one takes to be inconsistencies in contemporary conservative thought. But these liberal rejoinders are far from fresh to movement conservatives: they’ve been aware of these contradictions and tensions -- and managing and reconciling them through both incompletely and elaborately theorized agreements -- for a long time. That is what successful movements, alliances, and parties do.Balkinization
Misunderstanding Conservatism’s Contradictions
Ken Kersch
Liberalism has its own contradictions, too.
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Pretty good post Tom... provoking..
Here is Luther from joebhed's "Cartesian Economics" reference:
http://habitat.aq.upm.es/boletin/n37/afsod.en.html
"The heathen were able by the light of reason to conclude that a usurer is a double-dyed thief and murderer. We Christians, however, hold them in such honour that we fairly worship them for the sake of their money... Usury is a great huge monster, like a were-wolf, who lays waste all, more than any Cacus... For Cacus means the villain that is a pious usurer and steals and robs and eats everything. And will not own that he has done it and thinks no one will find him out, because the oxen drawn backwards into his den make it seem from their footsteps that they have been let out. So the usurer would deceive the world as though he were of use and gave the world oxen while he however rends and eats all alone.
Martin Luther, SXV"
Pretty good! But I would point out that Luther's context is STILL "money" as exogenous.... so this holds him back imo... and he cant get anywhere with this...
A view of "money" as exogenous is a core problem in all of this....
rsp,
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