Nathaniel Gregory11h ago

#Liberalism stopped being #progressive in the late 1700's & early 1800's. Liberals uphold #capitalism. By default, that is not a "progressive" position.

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #DNC #RepublicanParty #RNC #GOP #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #Harris #TimWalz #Walz #Democracy #US #USA #ElonMusk #Musk #Fascism #Fascist

Liberal Currents1d ago
“Though distinct traditions, #liberalism and #socialism are both broad and varied, with significant overlap.” https://www.liberalcurrents.com/inheritance-of-equals-a-case-for-liberal-socialism/
Inheritance of Equals: A Case for Liberal Socialism

Things literally cannot go on as they have before the present democratic crisis—things have been broken and will have to be put back together somehow. Ideas that were unthinkable even a decade ago may see their chance in the sun. It is time for liberal socialism.

Liberal Currents
gr8commandment3d ago
Why Conservatives Must Support Liberal Education https://buff.ly/tGGkTLX #America #conservitivism #liberalism #education
Why Conservatives Must Support Liberal Education

The task of conservation, in our present day, necessarily entails supporting liberal education. Those conservatives who do not support it will fail to conserve our Western identity. That is to say: they will fail to conserve anything significant, no matter how many tributes they pay to some abstract ideas of “freedom” or “liberty.” (essay by John Howting)

The Imaginative Conservative
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD3d ago
One trick to understanding our world is to see the way #liberalism feeds into its presumed opposite by advancing a politics of bland #corporate domination that explicitly reduces individual #freedom. By advancing the power of #capital, liberals create conditions for #tyranny.
Show threadAustrian4d ago
"... The position of the Bolsheviks in regard to the problem of the territorial expansion of their dominions is not a whit different. They too acknowledge no other rule than that, in the conquest of new lands, one may and indeed must go as far as one dares, with due regard to one's resources." -- Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism
https://cdn.mises.org/Liberalism%20In%20the%20Classical%20Tradition_3.pdf
#mises #liberalism #capitalism #socialism #russia #europe #defence
Erwin4d ago

I'm trying to wrap my head around why #liberalism went from a humanistic pursuit out of the enlightenment, into am ideology that only seems to care for people in the abstract.

It would be interesting to try and reframe liberalism into a collectivist framework, without the zero-sum freedom mindset we got used to lately.

For that, the #capitalist urge to try and see everything as a market to exploit needs to go. Also, any individual need has to be translated into a common need.

Possible?

Columbus - Feeds4d ago
The Liberal Legacy of Mario Vargas Llosa - Christian Britschgi
The liberal legacy of Mario Vargas Llosa and his novels

The Peruvian novelist, who passed away this Sunday, was a lifelong defender of freedom in all its forms.

Reason.com
Sui4d ago

Found here:
https://x.com/Pinko69420/status/1913018766943723782

#capitalism #liberalism #Democrats #KamalaHarris

Comrade Sisko 🖖🏾✊🏿 (@Pinko69420) on X

X (formerly Twitter)
Leftist Lawyer4d ago

Just a reminder …
The opposite of a #populist is an #elitist

Which makes me wonder why “populist” movements so often promote “elite” outcomes.

Do you know what we call elitism, instead of elitism?

#Liberalism, that’s what.

Is the picture becoming clearer now?

Liam O'Mara IV, PhDApr 15
#Žižek is both right and wrong here. #Neofascism is distinct from classic fascism, and Trump's #fascism is of the sort that #liberalism produces. The right-#libertarian movement was always explicitly #authoritarian and even generic liberalism builds ever greater state power.