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To: Texasforever
Not exactly, the trunk of the tree is Classical Liberalism. From that trunk two branches comprising positive and negative liberty grew.

That's what the Leftists calling themselves liberals would have you believe. It's wrong. Socialistic so called liberals do not have those called classical liberals as ideological ancestors; the Left broke off long before the term liberal become current. The only thing giving their canard even a small bit of credibility is the fact that J.S. Mill started as a classical liberal and became a moderate socialist.

Your dichotomy is telling, though. If negative (i.e. real) liberty is libertarian and "positive liberty" is liberal, what kind of liberty do conservatives believe in?

24 posted on 12/23/2001 7:07:30 PM PST by A.J.Armitage
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To: A.J.Armitage
Your dichotomy is telling, though. If negative (i.e. real) liberty is libertarian and "positive liberty" is liberal, what kind of liberty do conservatives believe in?

I can see you have never actually studied the concepts of positive and negative liberty as applied to Classical Liberalism.

27 posted on 12/23/2001 8:25:03 PM PST by Texasforever
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