Even though support
for the free market has become stronger in the last decades, libertarianism can
still only be considered a fringe movement. Most people still believe that many
social problems are due to “market failure” and therefore require State intervention
to be “solved”. Despite the obvious flaws of modern
socialism, with its unlikely combination of redistributive welfare state
and globalist crony capitalism, and despite libertarianism’s robust philosophical
and empirical
foundations, the liberalism of
Ludwig von Mises is still far from enjoying the majority support that it so
amply deserves.
My article “The Education
of the Modern Socialist” deserves a follow up. That first part showed that a
change has occurred in the definition of "socialism"; a necessary one
in view of the failures of this ideology during the last century. Socialism today
is based on the ideology of "Statism" that is, the conviction that
the State must play a fundamental role in society. This is Ludwig von Mises’
wider definition of Socialism as State intervention; a modern social State that
is involved in most if not all the activities of society, whether commercial or
not.
The last G7 summit that took
place from 19th to 21st May 2023 in Hiroshima deserves attention
because it exposes the latest Western attempt to impose its unipolar world view.
But first a bit of background on the G7.
The recent revelations surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic in
the West are so shocking that first it is necessary to first summarize them.
Secondly, it is important to try to understand why these political and health scandals
are unlikely to have the political consequences hoped for by those who wish to
see truth and justice triumph.
The current international tensions have intensified a debate that
has existed for at least a decade, between two radically different views of the
world and of international relations: the unipolar world and the multipolar
world. When libertarians disagree on foreign policy, that difference of world view
is often the underlying cause. The purpose of this article is to show that the
concept of the unipolar world is contrary to the principles of libertarianism and
that the multipolar world is an important step in the direction of liberty internationally.
