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To: aquila48
the left has come back with a vengeance

They don't think so. They think their movement is over. You're right, though, there is no conservative philosopher of the stature of any of their major ones. One problem in perception is that any philosopher must at least mention Marx, and in so doing is branded, and the other is that to be credentialed one must establish one's credentials within the system--which is still dominated by you-know-who.

16 posted on 02/27/2004 4:28:44 PM PST by RightWhale (Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
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To: RightWhale
They don't think so. They think their movement is over. You're right, though, there is no conservative philosopher of the stature of any of their major ones.

Allow me to disagree with you. I'll take Adam Smith over Marx any day... Capitalism has beaten and will always beat communism and socialism. I say this very confidently because Smith understood human nature better than Marx. Smith lets humans thrive, Marx suppresses them.

"To each according to their need and from each according to their abilities" is not how humans are made. Regardless how idealistic it sounds it will never produce anything but misery.

More recently we also have Ayn Rand, von Mises, and other conservative philosophers that have expanded on Smith's foundations.

17 posted on 02/27/2004 8:36:09 PM PST by aquila48
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To: RightWhale
Leo Strauss...
29 posted on 03/03/2004 10:57:31 PM PST by JasonC
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