#interventionism

(article starts after Holby story)

“The defenders of interventionism often appeal to the notion that classical liberalism belongs to a past era. Today, they tell us, we are living in the age of "constructive economic policy," namely, interventionism. The wheel of history cannot be turned back, and that which has vanished cannot be restored. He who calls for classical liberalism and thus proclaims the solution as "back to Adam Smith" is demanding the impossible.

It is not at all true that contemporary liberalism is identical with the British liberalism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Certainly modern liberalism is built on the great ideas developed by Hume, Adam Smith, Ricardo, Bentham, and Wilhelm Humboldt. But liberalism is no closed doctrine and rigid dogma. It is an application of the principles of science to man's social life, to politics. Economics and social science have made great strides since the beginning of liberal doctrine, and thus liberalism also had to change, although the basic thought remained unaltered.

He who makes the effort to study modern liberalism will soon discover the differences between the two. He will learn that knowledge of liberalism cannot be derived from Adam Smith alone, and that the demand for repeal of interventionistic measures is not identical with the call, Return to Adam Smith.

Modern liberalism differs from the liberalism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries at least as much as modern interventionism differs from the mercantilism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is illogical to call the return to free trade an anachronism if the return to the system of protection and prohibition is not also seen as an anachronism.

~ na skin de trabalhador sksksksks

Are the working people of that country able to organize & potentially express organic leverage against that issue?

Would evidence of foreign intervention hinder the efforts/legitimacy of those groups more than it would accomplish?

Are there other interests whose conditions foreign intervention would impose on them that would leave their situation worse than it began?

If the above are true, regardless of the verifiable information presented, perhaps try focusing on domestic concerns where you can actually work to change conditions.

There are always more countries out there in the world where potential crimes may be committed, and empires don't tend to have the greatest attention spans when it comes to the more boring maintenance side of foreign intervention.