• davelA
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    First sentence from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism :

    Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, the right to private property and equality before the law.

    Second paragraph from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_property :

    Private property is foundational to capitalism, an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. As a legal concept, private property is defined and enforced by a country’s political system.

    This is in stark contrast to the first sentence from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism :

    Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

    What you call “liberal” and what you call “conservative” are both liberal.

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      13 hours ago

      You’re arguing that liberalism isn’t to the left of conservatism. It’s been fun. Thanks for the laughs. :)

      • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Liberalism is a conservative ideology, yes. It’s the ideology of capitalism and western imperialism.

        Leftism is the political realm of anti-capitalists. In a political dichotomy, liberalism stands on the right with other capitalist ideologies. Leftists stand opposed to them both. Liberalism is the ideology of billionaires, of strike breaking, of economic prosperity for the wealthy being the measuring stick of how successful a society is.

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          7 hours ago

          Here are the definitions I’m using:

          Dunn, John (1993), Western Political Theory in the Face of the Future, Cambridge University Press:

          political rationalism, hostility to autocracy, cultural distaste for conservatism and for tradition in general, tolerance, and … individualism

          Iain McLean and Alistair McMillan (2009), Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics:

          liberalism In general, the belief that it is the aim of politics to preserve individual rights and to maximize freedom of choice.

          Where are you getting your definitions from? I feel like you’re just making them up.