Liberal society requires unassimilable aliens

I wrote to a reader:

Liberalism requires the presence of unassimilable and alien and hostile people—the more unassimilable and alien and hostile they are, the more desirable they are from the point of view of liberalism.

He told me the idea was new to him and asked if I had written about it anywhere. In fact, it comes from three comments I wrote at VFR in response to a blog entry by Jim Kalb, the founder of VFR, back in December 2002. Read Mr. Kalb’s opening, then see my comments below that. At some point I will write this up as a full-scale article.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 08, 2006 06:22 PM | Send