• boredtortoise@lemm.ee
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    Tying liberalism to the market is an afterthought. Its core is in social freedom.

    Only the rich are free in capitalism

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      If it is its not mine. This is what people talk about when they talk about liberalism. If you want to use the word differently you should clarify that from the start b

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        1 year ago

        People should read up on liberalism and stick to it instead of capitalist newspeak

        And we who know better can always correct the misuse

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          If people “read up on liberalism” they’d be reading the definition of it which includes free market capitalism, because this is what textbooks on the matter will associate with liberalism. Not your definition of it which is shared by almost no one.

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            Even the Wikipedia article is 95% social freedom. And any critical person could see that when it mentions the additional economic liberalism is not possible under capitalism

            Easy test: Does everyone have the possibility to be economically (or otherwise) free in capitalism? No. Therefore liberalism is impossible with capitalism