The UN is harming liberty by promoting Rousseau
I chanced upon a promotional piece by the United Nations on Rousseau and tweeted against it. A respondent asked me to explain my tweet (I can’t readily locate the respondent’s tweet).
Rousseau was a major enemy of liberty.
One of the most significant classical liberals of all time, Professor Isaiah Berlin, showed in his BBC lectures (which were incorporated into a book, Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty) how Rousseau’s conception of liberty, combined with Hegelian statist worldviews, led to the depredations of communism and socialism.
Rousseau expounded an ENTIRELY opposite concept of liberty (positive liberty) to that propounded by John Locke (negative liberty).
Berlin summarised Rousseau’s position thus, in a famous essay:
Rousseau does not mean by liberty the ‘negative’ freedom of the individual not to be interfered with within a defined area, but the possession by all, and not merely by some, of the fully qualified members of a society of a share in the public power which is entitled to interfere with every aspect of every citizen’s life. [Source - Berlin, I. (1958) “Two Concepts of Liberty.” In Isaiah Berlin (1969) Four Essays on Liberty. Oxford: Oxford University Press.]
You will readily recognise the seed of Marxism in this thought. Rousseau is the direct precursor of Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, Fabian (Nehruvian) socialism, Nazi socialism, and other forms of communism. To Rousseau we can attribute the seed of thought that led Nehru to create policies which have destroyed India’s potential.
In brief, Rousseau’s ideas have killed HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of innocent people.P
Professor Berlin’s BBC talk (audio) is linked here.
In addition, Timothy Harris’s book, The Science of Liberty, discusses the frightening consequences of Rousseau’s ideas in France. (Read my blog post on Harris’s book.)
Read more at Sanjeev Sabhlok’s Occasional Blog-Liberty
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