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Liberalism
From Metapedia
Liberalism is a cosmopolitan individualistic worldview and affiliated philosophy—usually a euphemism for plutocracy—within which the impulses of an urban commercial class and capital are the dominating currents of society. The movement developed in Europe and is analogous with the rise of freemasonry and the so-called "Enlightenment". The ascent of liberalism emerged largely as a reorientation of the basis of Western society against the Ancien Régime of throne and altar. Libertarianism can be seen as the purist form of liberalism.
Liberalism has been established as a useful political outlook after the U.S. declaration of independence (1776) and after the Masonic Overthrow (1789–1794), standing at the forefront of political conceptions of the nineteenth century and first decades of the twentieth century[1]. Liberalism is the ideology that has taken different forms over time: classic and revisionist liberalism, old and new political and economic liberalism, perfectionist liberalism and minimal liberalism[2].
According to the British professor John Gray, all these forms of liberalism listed above, they share four elements: individualism, egalitarianism (equality before the law), universalism and progressivism.
Liberalism stressed from the outset on tolerance and pluralism, the limitation of political power and the separation of powers, individual freedom and private property, uniqueness and inviolability of the individual, individual rights and personal autonomy.
Liberalism is a political and economic doctrine that is characterized by certain principles such as:
- the principle of maximum equal individual rights;
- the principle of spontaneous self-regulation of the economy;
- principle to minimize the role of the state;
- the principle of reducing the justice to the legal laws.
Criticism of liberalist movements includes that it is often atheistic and relativistic, nihilistic and reductionist, instrumental and universal, cosmopolitan and lacking depth.
With regard to Eastern Europe after the fall of communism, liberalism has taken more as a form of anti-communist, he had only a general, poorly articulated, and reflect only a momentary situation, which proved ineffective when that liberalism has gone from a state of opposition to the government.
Within the last century liberalism can been viewed as an ideology to promote minority agendas within a society.
Notorious liberalists
Here we list some people whose personal beliefs and agenda contributed to the diffusion of liberalism.
See also
Note
- ↑ Constantin Hlihor, “ Twentieth Century History - Istoria secolului XX”, p.38
- ↑ Aurelian Crăiuţu, “ To be or not to be liberal?”
