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Show 111 professor of politlca' science could boast In politics, but because the pol itieiQns kina __ tations value. a the term warm of a more consistent thought pottern Liberal has been bandied obout loosely by comfort of its present connotation ond its exploi propogando tectm.ique. TW8nfieth-century liberalism suggests an opPO$ition. to the eOMentrotion of wealth in the hands of. few persons and of eeonemie assets in the control of Q e feweorpot.tl·ons; lal tton. it manipulGtiona of The bringing same G more suggetts oppo,sltion to the the few for the purpose of monopolistic practices and finonmaintaining their favored posi- liberalism declares itself in favor of reGistributing wealth, equftab:l. eli.trlo·ution goods, and ereatiAl opportunities, bose4 lower-income famUies who en are of the world's lner..ed Income and ostensibly in the obJectives suggested by the U.erat pcsltfon. At purchasing molotHy. one therefore These of I of power, for the ore some of the time Thomcas said that; we must 'be reconcUed to the fact have no poUttcClI detnocroey without economic demoeroey and we ean hove no economic democracy with Qut money. I.f we ate going to oeeept the theory of the freedom of the indIvidual we must accept the consequences of thot freedom. If a man is to be free to own, he must be fre. to own even an automobile. Grant him an Quff) and the freedom to 90 ond come, and there, of course, may be dire eOn$equenees. lut with (I little knowledge of the same spaee physicol fact that two bodies cannot occupy the 17 at the same time, much of the danger is gone. ·Sad the·t 17 CIS that fact is, we con Congressional Record, Vol. 84, July.5, 1939). p. A2232, (16th Congress, 1st Sess., |
