Ultra-liberalism

The ultra-liberal term is an indicating neologism what is referred, wrongly or rightly, with a Libéralisme, generally economic, seen according to the context as exaggerated, extreme, adding up or leading to harmful results. It is never mélioratif, often pejorative. No economist or recognized intellectual describes themselves as ultra-liberal.

Politically, the use of this term is associated with the wish of a maintenance and if possible of an extension of the prerogatives of the State out of economic material and social (in particular, but not only, the État-providence). It is used by the antilibéraux: the extreme left of which Communist , practically all left (though that there exist some rare liberals at the Socialistes), on the right holding them the “social line”, of the preserving , the nationalist , the souverainists and the traditionalists.

The Libéraux refute any legitimacy in this term. They regard it as a semantic hold-all intended more or less explicitly to disparage the Libéralisme.

In the United States, ultraliberal indicates in a pejorative way the extreme-left of the American Democratic party. It is also a pejorative term used generally by the republicans who reproach them for leaving a too great place to individual freedoms in the social domain.

Use of the term

I committed myself fighting a battle without precedent on employment i.e. to use all the means, those which had not been used. Then I say to the French, am pragmatic, am pragmatic, advance, test, test the various solutions, and nobody can say that social the Prime Minister ultra-liberal a Prime Minister succeeded| Dominique de Villepin, in connection with the Contrat first engages on TF1, March 12th, 2006

These last years, the company found the taste of the fight and active resistance against the horror ultralibérale| Jose Bove | diplomatic Le Monde October 1999

We, in a certain manner, agreed to confuse ultra-liberalism and liberalism, to oppose liberal and social, because Europe, of course, is liberal. It is founded on the acceptance of the market, on organized competition, the regulated exercise of individual freedoms. But it is a moderated liberalism, in the tradition of European social democracy. The European space of freedom of movement of the people and the goods was always a space of guarantee of the rights, standards progressists, of solidarity through in particular the equalization of the richnesses. Astonishing paradox that this lawsuit in ultra-liberalism at the time when the socialized treaty politicized like never the space of the market| Jean-Marie Bockel |National council of the PS June 4th, 2005

Because by confuse liberalism and the ultraliberalism, we become plug in the world and incompetents to act on him (…). Because by confuse liberalism and the ultraliberalism, we resign ourselves to one state control agreed upon, with a centralized and authoritative design of the public action| Jean-Marie Bockel, senator PS, in his motion with the congress of Mans

To impose on the forceps the strategy ultralibérale, in spite of popular resistances, not only means to weaken the democracy but still to feed the most aggressive nationalisms| Ignacio Ramonet |Geopolitics of chaos - 1997 - Galileo

chair Republic said that, for him, it was out of the question to let itself impress by the ultra-liberal ones| Laurent Wauquiez, September 7th, 2007

Refutation and defense of the use of this term

The second family with whom traditional liberalism is often confused is the will utltra liberalism whose Frederic Bastiat at the XIXe century, like nowadays Milton Friedman and (in the majority of its writings) Friedrich Hayek is the most known figures. In their writings, Mr. Friedman and F. Hayek went until proposing the privatization of the currency, i.e. each company has the right to emit paper money. In their society project these authors grant an extremely broad field to the freedom of the individual and companies and an exiguous role with the class action suit and the payment. the ultra-liberal tend to refuse almost any role with the public authority, not only in the economy itself, but still in education, health and even in the collective infrastructurs, function of the State that most famous of the traditional liberals wished to raise on the level of a true science appliquée.
While reading Frederic Bastiat (and today Milton Friedman or Hayek), it jumps to the eyes which they do not adhere to the same society project as the traditional liberals. Let us recall that, as of its arrival in the government, Turgot named a commission of the best scientists of the time (Condorcet, D' Alembert and the abbot Bossut) to work out the project of an integrated system of river and road communications. Also let us recall that Condorcet, Jefferson and Humboldt was the inspirers of the system of public education in France, Virginia and Prussia. Testify also this difference of principles and projects (between the ultra-liberal and the traditional ) the fact that the very first letter of the Correspondances between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams treats " réglementation" federal Post office that Jefferson had just made adopt by the congress and of which he regrets the delay in the application.
To avoid confusing the representatives of the family of thought covered by this book with the two schools which we have just mentioned, we will make use of the expression " traditional liberals " to indicate them and will often oppose to their opinions to those their predecessors the prélibéraux (such Locke and Pufendorf) like with those of ultra-liberal (such Frederic Bastiat and Milton Friedman). Francisco Vergara, philosophical bases of liberalism , the Discovery, (see the book for the references)

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External bonds

  • On libres.org
  • the point of view of [[Alain Madelin]]

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