{"id":29046,"date":"2010-10-11T17:24:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/tea-partyers-reading-the-libertarian-greats-hayek-bastiat\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T17:24:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:24:29","slug":"tea-partyers-reading-the-libertarian-greats-hayek-bastiat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/tea-partyers-reading-the-libertarian-greats-hayek-bastiat.php","title":{"rendered":"Tea Partyers reading the libertarian greats Hayek, Bastiat"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>by Paul Jacob<\/p>

According to a New York Times article by Kate Zernike, the “Movement of the Moment Looks to Long-Ago Texts.” A strange way of saying that Tea Party folks are reading, learning, and studying ideas older than those of, say, Paul Krugman.<\/p>

Tea Partiers are reading classics . . . but ones not recognized as such by the New York Times:<\/p>

•Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
•F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom <\/p><\/blockquote>

From the NY Times<\/a>, Oct. 1:<\/p>

<\/a>when it comes to ideology, it has reached back to dusty bookshelves for long-dormant ideas. <\/p>

It has resurrected once-obscure texts by dead writers — in some cases elevating them to best-seller status — to form a kind of Tea Party canon. Recommended by Tea Party icons like Ron Paul and Glenn Beck, the texts are being quoted everywhere from protest signs to Republican Party platforms. <\/p>

Pamphlets in the Tea Party bid for a Second American Revolution, the works include Frédéric Bastiat’s “The Law,” published in 1850, which proclaimed that taxing people to pay for schools or roads was government-sanctioned theft, and Friedrich Hayek’s “Road to Serfdom” (1944), which argued that a government that intervened in the economy would inevitably intervene in every aspect of its citizens’ lives. <\/p><\/blockquote>

The article cites the “Austrian School of Economics” — a brand of economics that includes many of the most important free-market thinkers — as an important force, but merely mentions its 20th century leader, Ludwig von Mises, as if a duty. Bastiat, a French economist who died before the school was founded, is lumped in with Mises and Hayek, perhaps because he’s so radically anti-taxation that the Times hopes by mentioning his ideas over and over, readers might dismiss him as a nut.That could backfire. Some of the Times’s smarter readers might become curious, reading Bastiat and Mises and Hayek with the notion of learning something. <\/p>

Maybe they’ll even read the Constitution. What a revolutionary thought.<\/p>

Paul's blog ThisisCommonSense<\/a><\/em><\/p>

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