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Author Name: Maybury, Richard J.
Title: Are You Liberal? Conservative? or Confused?
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bluestocking Press 1995
ISBN Number: 0-942617-23-1 / 9780942617238
Seller ID: 1465
Maybury explains that politics is not a matter of simply choosing between two opposing political parties; that a wide spectrum of positions exist on many key political issues. He opins that most Americans fall much closer to the middle in their political views than to either the right or the left. School Library Journal (review): Writing as ``Uncle Eric" and structuring his book as a collection of explicatory letters to his nephew, Maybury redefines the notion of political labels, replacing the left-right spectrum with a more inclusive scheme incorporating a scale of one's belief in the relative benefits of government. He wants to reinstate his idea of the original American philosophy, which he calls juris naturalis, or natural law. He denies that objectivity is possible in discussing political subjects, defines political power as the ability to use brute force to enforce rules, and elevates the protection of property to a religious principle. To his credit, he allows that liberals and conservatives may agree in some areas. His chapter on fascism is particularly interesting, but most interesting of all is his comparisons of juris naturalists to moderates; they both combine elements of left and right, but the former want economic and social liberty, while the latter want economic and social encroachment (taxes, rules, etc.).
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