tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639046296081313228.post6845677341647603187..comments2024-03-21T07:00:29.129-07:00Comments on basmanroselaw: A Short Note On Orwell's Description Of Himself As A "Tory Anarchist" itzik basmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819878847328122792noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639046296081313228.post-68889625444869595172017-08-30T05:23:35.659-07:002017-08-30T05:23:35.659-07:00Beautiful coda, Maestro. Glad to see the qualifier...Beautiful coda, Maestro. Glad to see the qualifier, "excessive". Statism is the bogeyman for demagogues. The worst human calamities were due to weak not strong states. The fall of Rome and hiatus of civilization, the English civil wars, France's Reign of Terror, the Bolshevik Terror, the Nazis, the Japanese militarists, Mao and more, were made possible by weak, often reformist states. America exists today because its weak Confederation was quickly replaced by a strong state.<br /><br /><br />We can debate about how much state is too much state, but I think it's more productive to discuss quality instead of quantity. Are universal healthcare and free education and "provision for the Common Defense" and insuring "domestic tranquility" (i.e. a police force that KEEPS THE PEACE), through the power of taxation, excessive statism? To some people they are. And those people a civil society has little use for.JMRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09749557967548053833noreply@blogger.com