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minus-squareGabu@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·9 months agoThat’s the correct meaning of “liberal”, yes… as in “libre”, meaning “free”. It’s 'murica that fucked it up.
minus-squareknfrmity@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·9 months agoCommunists are hardly liberal, in fact by any reasonable political theory definition we’re anti-liberal.
minus-squareAmaltheamannen@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoYou make it sound like we’re anti freedom rather than nothing to do with liberalism.
minus-squareknfrmity@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoI can see that. Maybe I’m just too snarky.
That’s the correct meaning of “liberal”, yes… as in “libre”, meaning “free”. It’s 'murica that fucked it up.
Communists are hardly liberal, in fact by any reasonable political theory definition we’re anti-liberal.
You make it sound like we’re anti freedom rather than nothing to do with liberalism.
I can see that. Maybe I’m just too snarky.