The Rebellious Old Right

The Old Right was steeped in the ideals of liberty including free speech, freedom of association, and self-determination, which inspired their desire to overthrow tyranny.

Albert Jay Nock is quoted as saying in 1920, when complimented on his fine “liberal” magazine, “I hate to seem ungrateful, but we hate liberal.

But, although they were strong defenders of what could be described as liberal values in the classical sense, it would not be accurate to describe the Old Right as liberal.

We loathe liberalism and loathe it hard.” Then, as now, the term “liberal” had come to denote values to which he was utterly opposed.

For the line between civilisation and chaos is thin, and public order is a public good too often taken for granted.

It refers instead to an absolutist defense of private property and the rights with which private property is associated, including free speech, freedom of association, and the right to self-defense.

Nor does extremism, in this context, entail the mindless civil disorder which many conservative commentators are determined to prevent. 

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