“Human rights tends to advance alongside American capitalism, … To any world l

—“Human rights tends to advance alongside American capitalism, … To any world leader concerned about protecting his country’s sovereignty, it is evidence that human rights is, often as not, a stalking horse for American power.”— From Chris Caldwell

I think Chris is (and you are) mistaken – sort of.

Yes, the postwar strategy of the west was (a) to prohibit border conflicts, (b) by directing states to the economic modernization of their populations rather than military expansion (Human Rights) (c) to create free trade despite doing so at the american populations cost and quality of life, (d) and to complete ending of the age of agrarian empires, which is the reason for the world wars, (e) bringing about the era of industrial nation states, free trade, and the resulting world prosperity.

This is how rule of law and the ‘Smithian’ prosperity is created as well as the reluctance of states dependent upon one another for economic cooperation to war.

However, the i) definition of human rights was insufficiently articulated, ii) the communists forced the introduction of the last two (or three?) into the enumerated rights that are not possible to be human rights, and iii) this failure opened the door to ‘expanding’ necessary rights (Natural Human Rights) into ‘unnatural’ and therefore seditious claims to such false rights.

As such it is unwise to claim the problem of human rights, meaning natural rights, all of which are purely cooperative to economic in their purpose, is the problem rather than , as usual, the sedition by the left that has, as it always does, undermined the elegance of the strategy by abuse of it and inserting their seditious, corrupting, immoral perversion on top of it/

Affections.

Cheers

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