Sunday, November 08, 2020
Gets one point, misses another
At Imaginative Conservative, a review of a new book by Yoram Hazony.
“Actual biological kinship is never more than a raw material upon which a nation is built, if it is even that,” Dr. Hazony writes. “In the end, the decisive factor is the ties of mutual loyalty that have been established among members of a nation in the face of long years of joint hardship and success… We see that the freedoms of the individual guaranteed in England and America are not something that the individual simply has ‘by nature,’ but are, on the contrary, the result of an intricate machinery developed through many centuries of trial and error.”Hazony seems to understand RIGHTS VS DUTIES much more clearly than the usual "conservative". It's especially good to see this review on a website that often publishes the "rights" nonsense that Hazony dismisses. But the author of the review misses one big point:
But the United States did end slavery precisely because of the core political principles and values of the English tribes that founded it could not tolerate such an institution within its borders forever.Nope. Britain and USA ended agrarian slavery because it competed with industrial slavery. In Britain the switchover happened without war. In USA the change was accomplished by a woke "social movement" directly funded and organized by industrialists. The "social movement" quickly generated the war that NYC wanted. Russia got rid of agrarian slavery without instantly replacing it by industrial slavery. The tsar bought out the owners of serfs and split up the land among the serfs. The MUTUAL LOYALTY inherent in agrarian slavery continued. The Soviet system continued it with collective farms, and extended the same MUTUAL LOYALTY to industrial employment.
Labels: From rights to duties, Natural law = Sharia law, Natural law = Soviet law
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