• Cowbee [he/they]
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    Liberalism is european in origin, as Capitalism first truly took hold there. It isn’t the “modern divide” but the notion of Liberalism as a progressive motion or regressive motion.

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        No, the mode of production creates the ideology, not the opposite.

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          And Europe was mired in mercantilist systems. The government gave business permission to exist in many cases.

          America was the first to institute capitalism, Europeans cane up with the philosophy but America put it into practice.