Săptămâna aceasta vă aducem în vedere un foarte elocvent text cu privire la bizara alianţă politică dintre conservatorism şi libertarianism, autorul dovedind că cea din urmă doctrină nu reprezintă decât unul din mulţii Cai Troieni ce s-au perindat prin cetatea ideatică a dreptei conservatoare. Totodată, eseul de faţă ne readuce aminte că orice însoţire între diferite tabere este doar o alianţă circumstanţială, iar nu una esenţială.
În tot textul, C.J. Carnacchio, precum un Laocoon postmodern, ne avertizează că "prietenii" pe care îi avem în lupta (meta)politică ne sunt deseori mult mai periculoşi decât duşmanii declaraţi. Astfel, articolul poate constitui începutul unei dezbateri fertile pe tema posibilităţii existenţei unei alianţe între dreapta tradiţională şi orice altă maladie ideologică a contemporaneităţii ...
Aşadar, vă lăsam în compania unui fragment din eseul cu pricina:
When Napoleon was asked upon whom he would most like to wage war, the vertically-challenged dictator replied, “My allies.” With this in mind I would like to turn my intellectual guns on the libertarians — the so-called “allies” of conservatives.While superficially conservatives and libertarians have a political alliance based on a mutual support of the free market and opposition to the omnipotent State, philosophically we are mortal enemies.
The philosophical war between conservatives and libertarians began two hundred years ago when the first aristocratic French head was placed on a pike as declaration of war to prescriptive society. Libertarians are the disciples of the Enlightenment and staunch supporters of the French Revolution. They are the bastard children of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Paine.
Conservatives, on the other hand, are the disciples of the eighteenth-century British statesman Edmund Burke. It was his fiery diatribe against the French Revolution, Reflections on the Revolution in France , that gave conservatives their philosophical substance for the next two centuries. Burke railed against the atrocities of the Jacobin revolutionaries as well as Enlightenment philosophers like Rousseau, whom he viewed as responsible for the revolution.
Unfortunately, most modern-day conservatives and libertarians are ignorant about this 200 year old quarrel. Most believe the alliance based on superficial common interests is sound political practice. But the conservatives’ pact with the libertarians has been most harmful to the cause of true conservatism as expounded by Burke. More often than not you hear so-called conservatives constantly singing the praises of the free market and stressing individualism rather than speaking about tradition and the spirit of community. The libertarians have so polluted the intellectual waters of true conservatism with their ideological filth that many conservatives now have trouble distinguishing between the two. In light of this, I would like take this opportunity to remind my fellow conservatives of the extreme philosophical chasms which have always separated conservative man from libertarian beast.
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