Friday, April 17, 2020

this is the mainstream view, i believe - and i'll allow my opponent the source, given the distance of events.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2013/12/edmund-burke-v-thomas-paine-nat-brown/

but, this text here came out of the exchange as well and is quite often defined as the beginning of the left-anarchist tradition, or the point where it became distinct from a general small-l liberalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Vindication_of_the_Rights_of_Men

it also has a lot to do with why i may allow myself to use the term "liberal", with a small-l - all of the influences on anarchism before 1800 would have identified as enlightenment or renaissance liberals.