About
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The Purpose Of My WorkI. A Libertarian Language For ConservativesImproving the civic political debate by giving conservatives a rational language: Propertarianism. II. An Institutional Solution To The Problem Of PoliticsProviding an improvement to our institutions so that people with incompatible goals can cooperate for mutual benefit: Capitalism v3. III. A Libertarian Reformation Is In Process (INCOMPLETE)The previous generations of libertarians, who had to fight ideological world communism, and practical political socialism, is about to be replaced by the the next generation, which actively seeks to restore our freedoms on one end, and to prepare for the future against the failure of the western empire on the other. While the rothbardians have succeeded in creating a libertarian ideology that inspires the masses, its up to intellectuals to create a framework of institutions to make those ideologies implementable. |
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Approach To Neo-Classical LiberalismI use libertarian theory and the Propertarian methodology of Rothbard and Hoppe. Institutionally, I can find no better method of establishing a political order than through constitutionalism and the rule of law. I rely on the praxeological model of social science: objective observations of what humans actually do – how they really act. Contrary to my expectations, and partly contrary to my desires, I have determined that some form of redistribution is called for. In this section I try to explain my approach to political philosophy. |
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On Argumentative Style“Why do you seem so arrogant and antagonistic?” Or, what I learned from the relentlessness of Milton Friedman, and the mistaken gentility of Friedrich Hayek.
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What Does Capitalism v3 Mean?Dani Roderik makes the argument that we need a new look at capitalism. Of course, he means the opposite of what I do. |
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About The AuthorA little Personal history. |
About
Curt Doolittle
Seattle, WA, United States
"De Philosophia Aristocratia"
I am an independent theorist of Political Economy in the Austrian Libertarian tradition. As a methodological Propertarian, I support the Property and Freedom Society, The Mises Institute, and the Neo-Classical LIberalism Movement.Purpose
Anglo Conservatism is the remnant of the European Aristocratic Manorial system and the Classical Liberal philosophy of the Enlightenment, combined with our ancient tribal instincts for group persistence and land-holding. It currently consists as a set of sentiments rather than as an articulated rational philosophy. And without that rational articulation, conservatives lack the ability to create and promote a plan that is a positive and rhetorically defensible alternative to the hazards of accidental bureaucracy and purposeful socialism.
This lack of an articulated philosophy leaves conservatives vulnerable in the public debate with Schumpeterian public intellectuals whose advantage in both volume of production, and simplicity of argument poses a nearly insurmountable challenge.
Libertarianism by contrast, is a rational philosophy of an articulate but permanent minority. It is based upon a solid, rational and critical methodology, even if it is flawed in its initial assumption: the principle of non-violence.
Unfortunately the Rothbardian Anarchist movement has appropriated the term "Libertarian", and left Classical Liberals and Conservatives alienated from the only system of thought with which they need to articulate their political sentiments in rational and empirical rather than moralistic and sentimental form.
By repairing the flaws in Libertarian philosophy we can use its methodology to provide a rhetorical solution for conservatives - a language which in turn may become an articulated philosophical body of argument and advocacy for the frustrated conservative majority.
Recent Posts
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Putting The American Failure To Support Britain Over Argentina In Strategic Context
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Four Levers Of Policy Create An Opportunity For Exchange
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A Not So Funny, All Too True. Anti Immigration Cartoon
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Teasing Karl Smith: The Futility Of Teaching Pigs To Sing
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An Argument In Support Of Faith As A Limit On The State
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WORD BUDGETS: Writing vs Speaking, and the Male vs Female myth.
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Why Are Conservatives Happier?
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Stratfor On Iran’s Strategy
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A Heretical Question? Do Women Have Too Much Power?
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Libertarian Strategy
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Putting The American Failure To Support Britain Over Argentina In Strategic Context