Hello, comrades. I was wondering why we allowed “liberal” to become a dirty word? A “liberal” is someone favorable to progress or reform, and also someone in favor of individual rights and liberties.
I understand American fake liberals largely discredited the word, but in Lemmygrad forums, I see true liberalism every day: people discuss progressive ideas all the time, and are very tolerant of each other. Why do we allow American fake liberals to ruin the experience for us all? The word “liberal” should once again ring positive, while fake liberals should be called “faux liberals” which they are, don’t you agree?
i feel like i should put it in another way, think like this: liberalism was a progressive force in the past creating the democratic institutions we live in today and abolishing the previous monarchist and feudal order, but nowadays, even when they see the same social symptons and anxieties as us, they want to deal with those problems by EXPANDING and “democratizing” those institutions further, either because they’re stupid and idealist or they don’t want to sacrifice the privileges those institutions provide them, it is completely opposite to us because we want to completely ABOLISH those same institutions, you can still argue reformists (“democratic socialists”) are marginally better and opposite to liberals because they supposedly want to change those institutions through liberal democratic reform, but it should be very clear why liberals are reactionary opposition for revolutionary socialists.