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Originally Posted by peter12
You really haven't read any of his aboriginal stuff, have you? Like, you really haven't even bothered. None of it advocates anything close to assimilation. In fact, his latest book argues that bands should be allowed to free themselves from the Indian Act through popular vote, and gain ownership of the land that they currently live on. It's the most moderate proposal for property rights reform that you could imagine.
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"European civilization was several thousand years more advanced than the Aboriginal cultures of North America both in technology and social organization". Sounds very enlightened. Literally a thin veneer on "they were savages who were lucky to have the white man come and liberate them from their idiocy".
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Originally Posted by peter12
By the way, how is Austrian economics in the least bit authoritarian, in regards to the free market? That is an incredible oxymoron.
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You are obviously not stupid, so don't pretend that the claimed "classical liberalism" Hayek subscribed to doesn't have a Venn-overlap with modern conservative ideals, especially in regards to a free market. What I'm getting at is that Hayek's ideas fell more in line the Modern Conservatism than Libertarianism. Modern Conservatism is Authoritarian.