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Capitalists would like you to believe that liberalism is the left-most edge of the economic spectrum, precisely because it is the left-most point on the spectrum that doesn’t threaten their power.
True leftism threatens the power of capitalists. Liberalism is not leftism.

  • boredtortoise@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You seem to be conflating capitalist “liberalism” with actual liberalism. I was trying to be very clear; there is nothing liberal under capitalism

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      1 year ago

      And you seem to intentionally be missing the point because you’re a liberal who doesn’t like hearing what the word actually represents, so are trying to redefine it (or at best, cling to an outdated and now irrelevant definition).

      So again - perhaps you might benefit from some light reading.

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        1 year ago

        First: don’t assume

        Second: you can do a test. List the attributes of liberalism and see which are true under capitalism. Add a ✔️ or ❌. For funsies, you can also check the overlap with anticapitalism or leftism or any other ideologies

        After all, reality has a leftist-liberal-progressive bias