The philosophy has continued to evolve since the 19th-Century, Jeethttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/971967531974971392 …
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Replying to @clairlemon
Well then it's not classical liberalism. Why not come up with a new name rather than claiming identity with a complex heritage you don't actually have much in common with?
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Replying to @HeerJeet @clairlemon
As someone who’s self-IDed as a classical liberal for about 20 years, let me heartily endorse that idea. I hadn’t even been aware alt-right types were trying to coopt the term until... well, today.
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Though... wait, is Jeet suggesting the applicability of “classical liberal” is wedded to... dumb things Mill wrote about pre-industrial cultures? Because that’s absurd.
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Replying to @normative @clairlemon
No, I'm saying that actual classical liberal tradition is pretty complex with all sorts of strange by ways, so all modern "classical liberals" are just picking & choosing from that. I would prefer classical liberal to be be used only for pre-20th century stuff
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Replying to @HeerJeet @clairlemon
Unlike all other political traditions, which are marked by a clean heterogeneity requiring no such selection?
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I mean, there's a pretty clear split between two ongoing & evolving liberal traditions, and it isn't exactly absurd to call the older one "classical."
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I will grant that I understand why, say, Hayek called himself a classical liberal or a whig. But now term is used by many people who aren't really Hayekians (say Max Boot).
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Well, obviously it was absurd for Max Boot to lay claim to the label. It was absurd for King Hassan II to call himself a socialist too. Sometimes people toss around words inappropriately.
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Right, but there has been a real upsurge lately of people calling themselves "classical liberals" -- people with nothing in common with Hayek, let alone Locke or Mill. My tweet was directed against that.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @notjessewalker and
I suspect that the “classical” prefix got necessary when the “liberal” term started meaning something else (in the US, elsewhere, e.g. in Europe liberal still mean liberal)
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