The Tyranny of Liberty

The conservative element, busily remaining relevant to the dialectic of cyclical economic crisis and the demand for change in a post-industrial society, argues that correcting for the detriment experienced by the vast majority of Americans in the current crisis is a tyranny of liberty that must be reversed in order to preserve the fundamental principles that our nation was founded, has made us strong and will keep us strong.

The conservative principles refered to by the conservative element as fundamental are derived from pre-industrial society when making a profit was the entrepreneurial adventure on the wild frontier. Society has since progressed into a post-industrial productive capacity that is even beyond the classical economic problem of crisis of overproduction being just a lack of demand caused by surplusing value, but sheer productive capacity.

Post-industrial capacity is far beyond the conditions that produced the American Revolution. At that time, the tyrant was the king preventing the businessperson (the bourgeoise, the middle class) the full market value of their work in the marketplace to achieve economic growth and a peaceful prosperity--the profit. The middle class fully intended to replace the king's inherited right to rule with their inherited right to rule, or the natural right to liberty that the tyrant was preventing.

Once the king's power was supplanted by the bourgeoise, a private propertied ruling "class" emerged, no longer middle class. The productive capacity of neo-classical capitalism monetizes the retributive value and allows for the extension of credit for a burgeoning middle class now demanding the retribution of value (the revolution) Keynesian innovations are designed to prevent.

The demand for equitable distribution of economic value by government authority (the sovereign people) in opposition to the old liberty to accumulate it and cause general economic crisis must be rendered a threat to the post-industrial middle class by the conservative element. Fear and loathing is the agendae--liberty is being destroyed by the tyranny of the plenary and complete, absolute power of government (the legal, constitutional sovereign).

For the conservative element, the legal sovereignty of The People is self-rule. The fate of The People is thus self-determined and, therefore, retributing the economic value accumulated can only be ex-post-facto and by bill of attainder, or by illegal, tyrannical means that are the antithesis of freedom. Choosing to retribute the value is tantamount to choosing tyranny and the Hamiltonian (elitist) form of government is thus confirmed as necessary to conserve the liberty the Revolution has confered.

If The People are inherently incapable of ruling, self-rule is naturally the function of, it is to be "attributed" to, the power elite--the "old" liberty that resulted in the accumulation of wealth and power by what was once the middle class.

This conservation of liberty renders the conservative element relevant to the current dynamic of power to redefine, realign, and finally, restructure the elements of the power structure as the value is naturally "retributed" to the middle class. The change that will occur is not to be feared and loathed. It will be a tyranny of liberty that replaces the liberty of tyranny.