Classical Liberal
- Hayek and Mises steadfastly called themselves "classical liberals" out of necessity-to distinguish themselves from the modern liberal program
- After the Great Depression and two world wars, the old nineteenth-century liberalism was under open attack
- Mises and Hayek still advanced a liberalism of economic freedom and peace, in stark contrast to the central planning, interventionism, and positive rights promoted as scientific by Marxists and Keynesians
- Today, there is only liberalism and illiberalism
- Progressives simply reject liberalism altogether, so why attempt some kind of linguistic sugarcoating for it?
- Neoliberalism, by contrast, is a derogatory catchall term used by the Left today to police what it sees as undue respect for markets and private capital among the Clintonite and Blairite factions pushing global social democracy
- The shift in the meaning of "liberal" over the thirty-five years between editions was clear and convincing.
https://mises.org/wire/classical-liberalism-will-never-satisfy-left
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