• darq
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    21 year ago

    College communists will absolutely label the entire democratic party right wing, and will call liberalism a fundamentally conservative philosophy.

    I mean. I’m no college communist. But neither of those assertions are particularly out there?

    When compared with parties in other democracies, the Democrats are pretty right-wing on many issues. And it’s not strange to refer to liberalism as a conservative philosophy, it tends to place emphasis on private property, free-market economics, and capitalism. There are places where the conservative party are “The Liberals”.

    • J Lou
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      01 year ago

      Liberalism, as in the philosophy, isn’t inherently pro-capitalism. There have been liberals that are opposed to capitalism.

      • darq
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        11 year ago

        That is why I said “tends” to favour capitalism. Which I don’t think is unfair. Liberalism has also been built upon for a long time, so one would expect to find a lot of variation.