In his new book, Professor Drulák writes: “Although some on the left see individual human rights as the counterweight to the market, they are in fact two sides of the same coin. The real counterweight to the market is political authority, the principles of common morality imprinted in collective memory, and social justice. But social justice cannot be promoted by liberalism, because it is an obstacle to the market.”
But social justice cannot be promoted by liberalism, because it is an obstacle to the market.
Petr Drulák also rightly points out that liberalism was a very necessary and useful ideology as long as it was in opposition to other trends and corrected their errors. But once it became so dominant that it lost real opponents, it became a monster. I’m afraid the same is true of any ideology. What socialism out of control can do needs no reminder. And I imagine that even today’s much needed conservatism could result in a nightmare of religious terror if it clearly prevailed. Even nationalism can, in certain circumstances, combine with its rival racism to create something horrible (as we see in Ukraine). I fear there is no ideology that does not carry such a risk. If liberalism is the main enemy of a free society and human happiness today, in a generation it may be something very different.
