I’m sure that you have heard about the chaos enveloping us here in France. I know that rumors have been spreading about the demise of the upper and middle classes and that you must be worried about our safety. I should assure you that we are in no current danger from the revolutionaries here. In fact, I believe that if these revolutions are successful, they will continue to spread much-needed change against the nobility while eventually giving way to more moderate policies that will help us in the long term. If the revolutions in France and Germany succeed, economic liberalism and its proponents will eventually dominate Europe’s political and financial systems.
The conservatism preached by Metternich and his friends in the nobility is outdated and cannot last much longer. To realize the truth in this, all you must do is read Metternich’s Political Confession of Faith. In it, he attempts to denounce the progress we have been making for the last couple centuries since the great Enlightenment …show more content…
Humans, like all other animals, have a natural state and natural interests. All of the world’s greatest philosophers, like John Locke and Thomas Paine, agree that the duty of the government is to protect the freedom of us humans to exercise the rights that we were born with. As Locke writes, every man has the right to life, liberty, and property. Marx would have the men who did not have the skills to compete, the so-called proletariat, take the money that we earned. Marx seems to think that capitalists can exploit the economy, but Adam Smith, one of our esteemed Enlightenment philosophers, clearly explains why the free market cannot be exploited. It would not be advantageous to us or to anyone if we exploited consumers, therefore, Marx’s proposed regulation and redistribution is ridiculous and would never work as a viable system in the real
The conservatism preached by Metternich and his friends in the nobility is outdated and cannot last much longer. To realize the truth in this, all you must do is read Metternich’s Political Confession of Faith. In it, he attempts to denounce the progress we have been making for the last couple centuries since the great Enlightenment …show more content…
Humans, like all other animals, have a natural state and natural interests. All of the world’s greatest philosophers, like John Locke and Thomas Paine, agree that the duty of the government is to protect the freedom of us humans to exercise the rights that we were born with. As Locke writes, every man has the right to life, liberty, and property. Marx would have the men who did not have the skills to compete, the so-called proletariat, take the money that we earned. Marx seems to think that capitalists can exploit the economy, but Adam Smith, one of our esteemed Enlightenment philosophers, clearly explains why the free market cannot be exploited. It would not be advantageous to us or to anyone if we exploited consumers, therefore, Marx’s proposed regulation and redistribution is ridiculous and would never work as a viable system in the real