{"id":347276,"date":"2018-02-08T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T02:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-evil-of-egalitarianism-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T03:00:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T02:00:32","slug":"the-evil-of-egalitarianism-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-evil-of-egalitarianism-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evil of Egalitarianism &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 No Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>For well over a century, the Left has generally been conceded to have morality, justice, and \u201cidealism\u201d on its side; the Conservative opposition to the Left has largely been confined to the \u201cimpracticality\u201d of its ideals. A common view, for example, is that socialism is splendid \u201cin theory,\u201d but that it cannot \u201cwork\u201d in practical life. What the Conservatives failed to see is that while short-run gains can indeed be made by appealing to the impracticality of radical departures from the\u00a0<em>status quo<\/em>, that by conceding the ethical and the \u201cideal\u201d to the Left they were doomed to long-run defeat. For if one side is granted ethics and the \u201cideal\u201d from the start, then that side will be able to effect gradual but sure changes in its own direction; and as these changes accumulate, the stigma of \u201cimpracticality\u201d becomes less and less directly relevant. The Conservative opposition, having staked its all on the seemingly firm ground of the \u201cpractical\u201d (that is, the\u00a0<em>status quo<\/em>) is doomed to lose as the\u00a0<em>status quo<\/em>moves further in the left direction. The fact that the unreconstructed Stalinists are universally considered to be the \u201cConservatives\u201d in the Soviet Union is a happy logical joke upon conservatism; for in Russia the unrepentant statists are indeed the repositories of at least a superficial \u201cpracticality\u201d and of a clinging to the existing\u00a0<em>status quo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Never has the virus of \u201cpracticality\u201d been more widespread than in the United States, for Americans consider themselves a \u201cpractical\u201d people, and hence, the opposition to the Left, while originally stronger than elsewhere, has been perhaps the least firm at its foundation. It is now the advocates of the free market and the free society who have to meet&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/02\/murray-n-rothbard\/egalitarianism-as-a-revolt-against-nature-and-other-essays\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For well over a century, the Left has generally been conceded to have morality, justice, and \u201cidealism\u201d on its side; the Conservative opposition to the Left has largely been confined to the \u201cimpracticality\u201d of its ideals. A common view, for example, is that socialism is splendid \u201cin theory,\u201d but that it cannot \u201cwork\u201d in practical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}