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I think you mean libertarian. Unless there’s some spicy details of Adam Smith’s life that the history books left out.



Dollars to donuts that "libertine" was just as deliberate as the "satanic" that followed it.


I was prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt, but if it was deliberate it’s worse; it descends beyond mere polemics and is just casting baseless and unfounded aspersions.

I quite enjoyed it. Smith has long been commandeered by libertine laissez-faire cultists who have severed the “invisible hand” from his body of work to worship as a relic.



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