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Confessions of an old-fashioned liberal.(Mario Vargas Llosa)(Transcript)
Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa flirted briefly with communism before becoming an outspoken defender of human freedom. Today he is a leading proponent of "classical liberalism"--which Americans are more likely to call "libertarianism," but South Americans and Europeans refer to simply as "liberalism." For Vargas Llosa, classical liberalism is the defense of political and economic freedom, and an opposition to both collectivist utopias and authoritarian dictators. Vargas Llosa stepped out of his artist role and ran for president of Peru in 1990, a time when his nation was gravely endangered by left-wing Shining Path militants. In his memoir of this period A Fish in ...
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