• SCB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    While I totally agree that liberals are not leftists. Liberals in the US are on the left.

    I don’t really expect you to learn this, as a self-identifying leftist, because your priors are everything to you, but it is true.

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      1 year ago

      Liberals in the US are on the left.

      So the original post was talking world wide. Limiting the scope to a very right wing portion of the world doesn’t magically change who’s on the Left.

      If you have a room full of people saying “Let’s form a dictatorship and conquer the world!” and 1 person says “I don’t think that’s a good idea”, that person is not automatically “on the left” just because they are to the left of extremist right wing views.

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      1 year ago

      Liberalism is the ideology of capitalism.

      Leftist politics reject capitalism.

      Liberalism is only left compared to conservatism, but both are on the right wing.