Alphabet said:
What? APEC and the EU are nothing alike! APEC is just a group of countries that meet every few years to promote free trade,[...]
EU is maybe more powerful but both have as main goal, promoting liberal economy and free-market, unlike ACF thinks. Article 63 of the TFEU (which I mentioned above) is very telling.
Alphabet said:
As for this whole right-left business, I agree with ACF and I think your argument isn't correct.
You may think what you want, my argument is correct.
All the founding fathers of liberalism (Smith, the Enlightenment, Tocqueville, etc.) were politically and philosophically left-wingers in their time.
Political and philosophical left is a movement aiming at more freedom, struggling against authoritarian regime, wether culturally or economically.
It has nothing to do with social inequality (the left does not have the monopoly of heart !!). The first "socialist" or "unionist" movement in the 19th century, never saw themselves as left-winger. Neither did Marx nor Engels. I insist. Which makes sense because the left were the Bourgeois/merchants who led to the French Revolution.
Only at the turn of the 20th century, the socialist movement and the political left made a historical "agreement" (So the great French philosopher Jean-Claude Michéa situated it at the Dreyfus Affair) but since the failure of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War this agreement was void and the left was back to its primary root, promoting liberalism and capitalism.
Hence Michéa would point to the mistake (or lie !) made by the far-left who would consider capitalism as essentially "conservative" while the capitalist system is definitely "progressive" in its nature. Lasch also noticed it.
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