Liberalism was always about liberties for property owners and boot on the necks of everyone else.
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wewbull@feddit.uk 10 hours agoWhat’s liberal about what’s going on? It’s all authoritarians keeping the population under heel.
Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 7 hours ago
ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 9 hours ago
Yes, liberalism.
wewbull@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
Talk about new-speak.
ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 8 hours ago
New to you maybe, but this is old speak. The idea that liberalism means progress and tolerance is itself a recent ideological construct emerging from America’s right wing-ultra right wing political spectrum and like all ideas that emerge to justify capitalism, it is violently at odds with reality. Liberals are currently supporting a genocide here, and for the last couple hundred years most people around the world have associated it, correctly, with rapacious colonialism, imperial domination, and endless capitalist exploitation. Now, given that Orwell was a hack and it’s good to learn to think for oneself, do you have anything of substance to say about this?
Orcocracy@hexbear.net 7 hours ago
More specifically, neoliberalism has always been cruel, violent, and authoritarian since the beginning. Margaret Thatcher was not exactly a person who believed in peace, love, and togetherness.