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“It was a new kind of class war — the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.”

Irving Kristol

The Question of Liberty in America
About California's 1978 Proposition 13 which limits tax increases without public approval
1970s

War , People

“Capitalism is the least romantic conception of a public order that the human mind has ever conceived.”

Irving Kristol

As quoted in "Free-Market Boring…Losing Consciousness" http://web.archive.org/web/20010105/www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg012401.shtml (24 January 2001), by Jonah Goldberg, National Review

“The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication in a pornographic movie -- but only if she is paid the minimum wage.”

Irving Kristol

Wall Street Journal, September 11 1975.
1970s

Girl

“Today there is a new class hostile to business in general, and especially to large corporations. As a group, you find them mainly in the very large and growing public sector and in the media. They share a disinterest in personal wealth, a dislike for the free-market economy, and a conviction that society may best be improved through greater governmental participation in the country's economic life. They are the media. They are the educational system. Their dislike for the free-market economy originates in their inability to exercise much influence over it so as to produce change. In its place they would prefer a system in which there is a very large political component. This is because the new class has a great deal of influence in politics. Thus, through politics, they can exercise a direct and immediate influence on the shape of our society and the direction of national affairs.”

Irving Kristol

1970s, Two Cheers for Capitalism (1978)

Life , Hostility , Education , Exercises

“If you have standards, moral standards, you have to want to make them prevail, and at the very least you have to argue in their favor. Now, show me where libertarians have argued in some comprehensive way for a set of moral standards. … I don't think morality can be decided on the private level. I think you need public guidance and public support for a moral consensus. The average person has to know instinctively, without thinking too much about it, how he should raise his children.”

Irving Kristol

Essay in the Wall Street Journal (1978).
1970s

Children , Way , Support , Thinking