One more thing. “There’s…
One more thing.
“There’s another way in which classical liberals are strangely Stalinist. They seem to want to over-ride the huge public demand for state intervention.”
How is this argumentative maneuver any different from, say, deriding the civil rights movement in the American South, on the grounds that it’s “strangely Stalinist” to want to over-ride the demands of the large majority of the population of the Southern states for white supremacy and the public humiliation and political control of black and mixed-race Southerners?
Popular demands are not always legitimate. The mere fact that great numbers of people will vote for something is no guarantee whatsoever that they have any right to it.
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