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Full Idea
Laissez-faire liberalism failed, because it did not offer people protections and real freedom - against discrimination, insecure work, educational disadvantage, lack of social respect, absence of representation. It was cold, distant, and ineffective.
Gist of Idea
Laissez-faire liberalism failed to give people the protections and freedoms needed for a good life
Source
Ian Dunt (How to be a Liberal [2020], 13)
Book Ref
Dunt,Ian: 'How to Be a Liberal' [Canbury Press 2020], p.445
A Reaction
A very nice summary, which I take to be correct.
| 22596 | No government, or the whole nation, can control an individual beyond legitimate scope [Dunt] |
| 22592 | Nationalism pretends that we can only have a single identity [Dunt] |
| 22594 | In 1794 France all individual and legal rights were suppressed by the general will [Dunt] |
| 22602 | Over several centuries a set of eight main liberal values was established [Dunt] |
| 22603 | Laissez-faire liberalism failed to give people the protections and freedoms needed for a good life [Dunt] |