Re:How Vienna produced ideas that shaped the West
by sebastianconcpt on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @11:38AM
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Depending on the semantic stretching yes, you are correct, there are many "right-wing" populist that also do that and use coercion in the same morally problematic way. The point I'm stressing is that some "right-wing" might be for a minimalistic state, while most of the left-wing is all for an all-powerful state
Re:How Vienna produced ideas that shaped the West
by mastazi on Monday January 09, 2017 @07:25PM
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Yes I agree with you that there is a semantic problem (e.g. in the US the adjective "liberal" means "leftie" whereas everywhere else means "in favour of free markets") but that's much less important than the substance so I don't want to focus on words and definitions.
It seems to me that as of 2017 the major threat to free markets comes from protectionism, not from socialism.
The new president of the USA, who is a Republican, has in numerous occasions pledged to follow protectionist policies, and many European right-wing parties, not only in UK, are against the EU single market.
So I would say that centre-right or right-wing politicians who are against free markets are not an edge case any more.
> progressivist societies
Do you realize that in many countries free markets are a progressive thing, and that many right wing parties promote high public expenditure and extensive welfare?