SO LIBERALISM WAS NOT, AND IS NOT, DEMOCRACY? (clarifying post) QUESTION: “Liber

SO LIBERALISM WAS NOT, AND IS NOT, DEMOCRACY?

(clarifying post)

QUESTION: “Liberalism is not democracy. Is that a true-enough statement to make?”

ANSWER: I think that liberalism was not so much one man one vote, but one vote one family. And that liberalism was structured with multiple houses so that different classes could conduct trades in a market. We call that market government. But it’s still just a system of exchanges wherein each party retains his potential for the use of violence.

So liberalism was a an evolution of enfranchising more people into that system, but without understanding of what that system did. And then that system was abused – I think primarily by the entrance of women into the voting system once they became active in the work force.

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine