{"id":41,"date":"2005-03-10T13:02:55","date_gmt":"2005-03-10T17:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/03\/10\/marxism-of-the-right\/"},"modified":"2005-03-10T13:02:55","modified_gmt":"2005-03-10T17:02:55","slug":"marxism-of-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/03\/10\/marxism-of-the-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Marxism of the Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a56'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>by Robert Locke, March 14, 2005 Issue, The American Conservative<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;[L]ibertarianism is basically the Marxism of the Right. If Marxism<br \/>\nis the delusion that one can run society purely on altruism and<br \/>\ncollectivism, then libertarianism is the mirror-image delusion that one<br \/>\ncan run it purely on selfishness and individualism. Society in fact<br \/>\nrequires both individualism and collectivism, both selfishness and<br \/>\naltruism, to function. Like Marxism, libertarianism offers the<br \/>\nfraudulent intellectual security of a complete a priori account of the<br \/>\npolitical good without the effort of empirical investigation. Like<br \/>\nMarxism, it aspires, overtly or covertly, to reduce social life to<br \/>\neconomics. And like Marxism, it has its historical myths and a genius<br \/>\nfor making its followers feel like an elect unbound by the moral rules<br \/>\nof their society.<\/p>\n<p>The most fundamental problem with libertarianism is very simple:<br \/>\nfreedom, though a good thing, is simply not the only good thing in<br \/>\nlife&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Robert Locke, March 14, 2005 Issue, The American Conservative &#8220;&#8230;[L]ibertarianism is basically the Marxism of the Right. If Marxism is the delusion that one can run society purely on altruism and collectivism, then libertarianism is the mirror-image delusion that one can run it purely on selfishness and individualism. Society in fact requires both individualism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[781],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}