Written in the libertarian tradition of Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and Ringer’s Restoring the American Dream, Louis E. Carabini’s Inclined to Liberty is a concise and discerning examination, both politically and economically, of what it means to prefer freedom to central dictate. FULL ARTICLE
Source link: http://archive.mises.org/9788/freedom-or-regimentation/
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“The implication, of course, was that the state should intervene to balance the scales of ‘social justice.’”
From “An Inquiry Concerning Social Justice and Its Influence”:
What
is “social justice”? The theory that implies and justifies the practice
of socialism. And what is “socialism”? Domination by the State. What is
“socialized” is state-controlled. So what is “totalitarian” socialism
other than total socialism,
i.e., state control of everything?
And what is
that
but the absence of a free market in anything, be it goods or ideas?
Those who contend that a socialist government need not be
totalitarian, that it can allow a free market — independent choice,
the very source of “inequality”! — in some things (ideas) and not in
others (goods — as if, say, books were one or the other), are saying
only that the socialist ethic shouldn’t be applied consistently.