"What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love". -MLK
January 17, 2011
Positive liberty vs. negative liberty
Ideologies Have Overlap <via Ian Welsh>
Ideologies neither form a spectrum, nor a grid, nor even a circle. Instead the reality is more complicated, with ideologies agreeing on different issues, often for different reasons in some very odd ways.
Progressivism (as I understand it, I would not call myself a progressive) is fundamentally and first about domestic issues. If someone is willing to sacrifice liberty and economic progress for war then they aren’t a progressive. Likewise, Ron Paul for example is not a progressive because he disagrees on key domestic issues (even as he agrees on other domestic issues and many issues surrounding war.)
The paleocon right, the libertarian right and the “hard” (what passes for hard in America) left agree substantially on some specific foreign policy issues (the end of empire). They also agree on many economic issues and liberty issues. They disagree on redistributionism and they disagree on positive liberty (making sure that people actually have an even break), as opposed to negative liberty (making sure the government isn’t actively stopping them from having an even break).
Ideologies neither form a spectrum, nor a grid, nor even a circle. Instead the reality is more complicated, with ideologies agreeing on different issues, often for different reasons in some very odd ways.
Progressivism (as I understand it, I would not call myself a progressive) is fundamentally and first about domestic issues. If someone is willing to sacrifice liberty and economic progress for war then they aren’t a progressive. Likewise, Ron Paul for example is not a progressive because he disagrees on key domestic issues (even as he agrees on other domestic issues and many issues surrounding war.)
The paleocon right, the libertarian right and the “hard” (what passes for hard in America) left agree substantially on some specific foreign policy issues (the end of empire). They also agree on many economic issues and liberty issues. They disagree on redistributionism and they disagree on positive liberty (making sure that people actually have an even break), as opposed to negative liberty (making sure the government isn’t actively stopping them from having an even break).
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