The Liberty It is an essential human condition that associated with the responsibility contributes to peace and harmony. But if there is one characteristic that makes liberal ideas relevant above the rest, it is their paradoxical provisionality, that is, that this vision of life and human relationships does not pretend to be definitive, but rather is precarious and susceptible to being modified by new ideas. discoveries that allow us to know a little more regarding how much we ignore as human beings. Because liberal ideas –even in their libertarian dimension– are not shouted at, they are not disrespectfuldetermining or trying to be overwhelming, will always be subject to the possibility of a new analysis, a different consideration and even its revision and replacement by something better that arises from approximations that had not been taken into account.
Socialist ideas are different. They can and are even born with the best intentions, but they have the will of some to change the reality of all their greatest fragility and misfortune. In general, good people are moved to see a helpless similar, in a pressing situation, and much more if such a circumstance happens to a child or an elderly person; Such a feeling can mobilize people to think regarding solutions that, in the case of socialism, seek to force changes that avoid these painful circumstances. through income distribution, but ultimately they produce more poor people and fewer goods and services, less creativity. There is an honest idealistic socialism but there is also one that makes use of asymmetries to justify its thirst for power to control society; And if there is something that history proves, it is that this power always tends to increase unbridled until it remains in the hands of a few and even in those of the dictator.
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The most conspicuous thinkers of freedom come from an idealistic or utopian socialism, but their reflection and search for alternatives to improve the social situation of their peers led them to recognize that there is no more effective way to achieve this than freedom and the marketan area in which human creativity expands unlimitedly.
Socialism is always suspicious of private property, capital and business. The Nobel Prize, Friedrich von Hayek He has said that the analysis of socialism should focus on means and not ends. You are right, the ends are always noble but the means always mean less freedom. We are dealing with socialist actions when there is mistrust in the market, businessmen are accused of being perverse (for raising prices, for example), the result of the effort of those who produce is taken and distributed in order to keep power under control. the excuse of equality. Sometimes such actions are framed in desperation and ignorance, but other times in hard-to-justify interests that are meaner than the most greedy of human beings. Argentina is an example of this.
The law is for others
Today, liberal ideas are widely accepted among Argentines, especially among the youngest and most disappointed citizens. That might be an excellent symptom. It seems that there is a girl that is not easy to cajole with gifts, who perceives that the crumbs that are given try to keep their situation unchanged. There are also people who do not believe in any politician and are looking for a reference that represents ways contrary to what is seen in the majority of current militant politicians. In one case and in another it is very important that all citizens reflect without passion and try to be well informed and alert, because History has proven that no society advances peacefully without agreements and negotiations, that is, without politics.
In “The limits of freedom”, an extraordinary essay by the Nobel Prize James Buchanan reflecting on the necessary agreements to progress as a society, the author concludes: “It is possible that the vision of the philosophers of the eighteenth century that allowed them to describe a social order that did not require the centralized direction of one man over the other still arouse enthusiasm. Free relations between free men: This precept of ordered anarchy can emerge as a principle when the successfully renegotiated social contract puts ‘mine and yours’ into a redefined structural arrangement and when new limits are placed on the Leviathan that lurks”.
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The liberal advance is auspicious, but it is essential that liberal politicians (since they are also politicians) stop thinking that they might fix the enormous problem that we Argentines have regardless of politics. The contributions that the ideas of freedom can make are monumental, but they will not be possible if a considerable consensus is not achieved.
Nobody will save Argentina alone or with a handful of acolytes.
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