Classical Liberalism

The first source is an excerpt taken from Freedom and the Welfare State. The views in the excerpt are supportive of left wing ideologies such as the welfare state, and are in favour of social programs. However, the source is not a complete rejection of liberalism since it maintains right wing ideologies such as capitalism and self interest. The source suggests that in order for society to thrive we must allow individuals to pursue their interest by granting government intervention in society to create a social security net,which would then, in turn, allow individuals to pursue their interests and “receive just rewards for their talents” . The excerpt argues that without a social security net individuals will not be able to take risks as they will be “beset by fear and insecurity”, something which takes away from individual freedoms.
The source states that by doing so the rich are demotivated and the poor are left dependable. It would be reasonable to assume that the speaker is someone who would support the Right given their criticisms of its polar counterpart and obvious support of capitalism which can be extracted from their openings statement, “human labour[...]is the only way to produce[...]the amenities”. Their view is that people should work for what they want rather than to have it distributed to them. The speaker believes that collectivist ideologies disable individuals from providing for themselves and therefore guarantee an end result of “domestic poverty” and “spreads hunger across the