Skappola wrote:The Liberated Territories wrote:
I don't get this distinction, between "classical liberal" and libertarian. Both classical liberalism (today, neoliberalism) and libertarianism are huge categories of thought, right-libertarianism converges on both. E.g. Nock, a classical liberal and geoist, was the first to call himself a libertarian in the modern sense in America. Later Milton Friedman and von Mises (?) adopted this label, although Mises continued to prefer the label of liberal. Classical liberalism doesn't exist, if it did, it'd be archaic.
Classical liberals in Europe, are today neoliberals (see: neo-(classical) liberals.) Classical liberalism no longer exists, but has morphed into many modern currents of thinking, libertarianism is one of them, neoliberalism is another, social liberalism as a third, liberal conservatism, and so on. The basics of classical liberalism is accepted by all of the above: 1.) respect for life, 2.) respect for liberty, 3.) respect for property to various degrees. It's the minutae that differentiate these schools of thought, otherwise they are all under the category of liberalism.
Fair enough, that probably isn't the best term for him. What would you use?
Liberal Conservative, although emphasis on the "liberal."
