Displaying items by tag: liberalism

Introduction

Liberalism seems to be the best of the human systems today. What makes liberalism preferable within secular systems is that it can change as a result of experience and in line with the demands of “civil society”. But most of the intellectuals in Türkiye unfortunately have a habit of adopting the most extreme ones of every ideology. The most extreme of liberalism is classical liberalism, that is, capitalism, which favors the complete liberalization of the market. One of his most influential contemporary philosophers from the mid-twentieth century to the present is Friedrich von Hayek. Liberals in our country follow him to a large extent. Two writers of the Yeni Yüzyıl newspaper with the title of “professor” are examples of this situation:  

Prof. Dr. Birol Kovancılar, in his article titled “I hate capitalism” on 19 November 2015, stated at this year's business world summit that Ali Koç said, “Capitalism must be eliminated for inequality to disappear. The real problem is capitalism” and he was criticizing Bill Gates’ words “I hate capitalism” that he has been saying since the 2008 World Economic Forum. Prof Dr Atilla Yayla, on the other hand, in his article titled “Capital and the Shroud” on November 20, 2015, criticized President Erdogan's speech at two sessions of the G-20 summit, urging employers to share some of their earnings with the poor by increasing the salaries of their employees.