Spectre@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 days agoLiberal vs leftistlemmy.mlimagemessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1180
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minus-squaredis_da_mor@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-220 hours agothere are multiple varying definitions of liberal depending on the time, location, and context reddit thread discussing this edit: i like getting downvotes for attempting to add nuance, i’m not even a liberal (by any definition), i’m a socialist anarchist
minus-squarePolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up13·edit-22 days agoYes, but the above one is the most consistent and historically correct that would cut down all those discussions.
minus-squareoscardejarjayes [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 days agoI mean, liberals by really almost any definition will still be pro-Capitalism, from Classical Liberalism to American Democratic Party liberalism. Once people go further left, into anti-Capitalism, they almost always stop using that label.
minus-squareAmnesigenic@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-22 days agoThere are varying definitions of a lot of words, and most of those variant definitions are wrong
minus-squareSibshops@lemmy.myserv.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoAnytime someone says liberal on Lemmy it will mostly likely refer to modern liberalism in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_liberalism_in_the_United_States
there are multiple varying definitions of liberal depending on the time, location, and context reddit thread discussing this
edit: i like getting downvotes for attempting to add nuance, i’m not even a liberal (by any definition), i’m a socialist anarchist
Yes, but the above one is the most consistent and historically correct that would cut down all those discussions.
I mean, liberals by really almost any definition will still be pro-Capitalism, from Classical Liberalism to American Democratic Party liberalism. Once people go further left, into anti-Capitalism, they almost always stop using that label.
There are varying definitions of a lot of words, and most of those variant definitions are wrong
Anytime someone says liberal on Lemmy it will mostly likely refer to modern liberalism in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_liberalism_in_the_United_States