Liberalism is only considered “left” in the US because it the republican party is too far right and there’s only 2 parties.
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masquenox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Leftists have always despised liberalism - and for pretty damn obvious reasons for anyone that has a basic understanding of what left and right actually means. Liberalism is a right-wing ideology that upholds capitalism, colonialism and white supremacism, all while having a recurring habit of enabling and supporting fascism at the drop of a hat when the precious liberal order is threatened by change from below.
So yeah - as far as leftists are concerned, the term liberal is as much of an insult as the term fascist is. There is even an old leftist saying, “kill the liberal inside your head” which sums up pretty nicely what leftists think of liberals and liberalism.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Liberalism is just letting people do what they want so long as it doesn’t interfere with letting people doing what they want
Support gay marriage? That’s liberal Support corporations paying people 30¢ per hour? That’s liberal
Support people having access to HRT? That’s liberal
Support people owning guns? That’s liberal
Support unrestricted immigration and trade? That’s liberal
The problem is it doesn’t fit in with the US definition of “left” and “right” - it’s economically far right but socially far left, and most Americans just cannot understand that