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On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a successful coup that overthrew the elected socialist government of President Salvador Allende in Chile. Ruling in the name of economic liberty, the Pinochet junta became one of the most notorious authoritarian regimes in recent history. With mass killings, widespread torture, and systematic intimidation, Pinochet's forces crushed the trade union movement, vanquished the rural farmers see..
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What we are seeing today is a new iteration of that very old impulse in America: the quest of some of the propertied (always, it bears noting, a particular ideological extreme --and some would say greedy-- subsection of the propertied) to restrict the promise of democracy for the many, acting in the knowledge that the majority would choose other politics if it could
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Slavery is an institution ordaines by Providence, honored by time, sanctioned by the Gospel, and especially favorable to personal and national liberty" Calhoun"
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Nancy MacLean |
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Calhoun more an more identified the federal government as a menace to liberty
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Nancy MacLean |
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Calhoun) He feared, as his successors today do, a government that hits band of like-minded property supremacists could not control
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Nancy MacLean |
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By the 1950s, the nation's premier workshop for the shrewd construction of elaborate rules to ensure the minority elite's power over the majority was the state of Virginia
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Nancy MacLean |
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Both Buchanan and Calhoun[...] were concerned wit the "failure of democracy to preserve liberty"
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Rothbard explained, was "that it was intervention of the State that in itself created the classes and the conflict", not the labor relations of the economy, as previous thinkers believed"
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What we are seeing today is a new iteration of that very old impulse in America: the quest of some of the propertied (always, it bears noting, a particularly ideologically extreme--and some would say greedy--subsection of the propertied) to restrict the promise of democracy for the many, acting in the knowledge that the majority would choose other policies if it could.
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