by Bruna Frascolla, Strategic Culture:

Liberalism has a profound difficulty in legitimizing itself. And it is no wonder: man has no reason to accept that authority comes from a secular bureaucracy, blind to the divine and to tradition. The closest they have come, as we have seen here, was to resurrect Rome with the aim of legitimizing a form of government, the republic. This was followed by theoretical and philosophical attempts to legitimize liberal democracy as the only regime worthy of humanity, since it would be the only one in which people are truly free. But what does freedom consist of, for a liberal? Signing contracts. In classical liberalism, the State served to register and enforce such contracts. When national States began to expropriate large capitalists, neoliberalism emerged (as we have seen here), whose aim was to establish global mechanisms with an authority superior to that of national States. The State now exists to protect transnational capital, and not to meet internal demands.