What is a postmillennialist, and why is it relevant for Rothbards paper?
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What is a “postmillennialist,” and why is it relevant for Rothbard’s paper?
Started by Murphy, Sep 10 2005 01:10 PM
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Posted 08 October 2008 - 08:51 PM
It was the ideological force behind progressivism and the growth during WWI of statism. It beleived in using the State to coerce man to freedom. They believed in the so-called protestant work ethic: sober, hard working, patriotic, frugal, educated. So they used the State to ban alcohol, regulate labor and business, guarantee loyalty, tax "extra" income away, and establish compulsory education and "reform" high school and higher education. The idea of post-millennial seems to me to be Rothbard's idea that these people would create a new world that would continue after Christ's millenial kingdom; by "psot" they sound more "Christ-like" than Christ himself: enforced salvation.
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