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Filuwaúrdjan
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« on: January 10, 2015, 01:35:12 PM »

No and there weren't any in the 19th century either.
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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2015, 01:35:12 PM »

No and there weren't any in the 19th century either.
That's blatantly false. Richard Cobden, Herbert Spencer, Eugen Richter, Gustave de Molinari, etc. If you're denying that these men were classical liberals then you've just made up your own definition.

'Classical Liberalism' is a latter day invention (generally it's something that a conservative calls themselves when they don't want to be called a conservative; once they realise that 'libertarian' is automatically read as 'mouth breathing neckbearded crank') and one that relies on a grotesque distortion of 19th century political alignments and ideology. The attitude of 19th century Liberals to state power was strikingly diverse (other than on the issues of religious liberty and political monarchs) and pretending otherwise leads you to the nonsensical position of pretending that some 19th century Liberals were authentic (and thus 'classical') and that some were not.
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