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Conservatism Is Not Enough: Reclaiming the Legacy of the Anti-State Left
"... Classical Liberals such as Adam Smith, Wilhelm von Humbolt, the Baron de Montesquieu, Jean Jacques Rosseau, Francois Voltaire, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and others were not simply opposed to a powerful state. They were opposed to concentrations of centralized power in all forms-political, military, economic, ecclesiastical or otherwise. In their day, this meant opposing the political elitism of the king, the economic elites represented by the aristocrats and feudal land barons and the cultural and academic elite at that time manifested by the established, state-priviliged church ( Anglican in England, Catholic in France and Spain, Orthodox in Russia). Their solution was to abolish the monarchy in favor of a republic, eliminate titles of nobility, establish lassez faire capitalism as the mode of production and disestablish the church in favor of religious liberty.
When laissez-faire capitalism later degenerated into centralized corporate elitism and monopolism (something Jefferson and Smith had predicted) and corporate interests had become intertwined with the state, the classical socialist movement arose in opposition to this new form of tyranny and exploitation...
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