the remaining differences are mostly about aesthetics and not about the use of violence to maintain hegemony
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
288 points (87.5% liked)
Memes
53822 readers
1374 users here now
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
That's not what liberalism is, even hyperbolically.
Counter point: it's exactly what it is.
False.
Go back to Reddit
And you can tell by the way that it is, unironically.
Then define liberalism
Gladly, liberalism: a political doctrine that takes protecting and enhancing the freedom of the individual to be the central problem of politics. Liberals typically believe that government is necessary to protect individuals from being harmed by others, but they also recognize that government itself can pose a threat to liberty.
"Can you use it in a sentence?"
Gladly: Liberalism emphasizes individual freedoms, democratic governance, and the protection of civil rights.
This is what liberalism does. Wealth inequality inevitably unbalances any sense of liberty in material reality over time. It is the ideology of capitalism that is destroying community, humanity and the biosphere and climate.
That is definitely a good definition of liberalism, it is one definition, and it happens to be my favorite one! I'm not testing you or being a way about it.
What do you think about the idea, that liberalism is also the idea that individual freedoms, liberties, etc., are based on a society that enforces the individual's right to private property? Like before WW1 when a lot of countries still had an autocratic aristocracy, and the revolutionary liberals, over a period of 100s of years, overthrew their kings and queens? I think that was genuinely an advancement for humanity.
But I think that in many cases the individual right to private property is supported by society much, much more than individual liberties of the vast majority. This leads many people, including myself, to believe that the other rights are not defended nearly as strongly as other rights.
Do you think liberalism is an ideology? If so does it have like blind spots, or biases?
Sorry it is so many questions I'm not trying to be pushy or gish gallop. Just curious what you think. Btw I didn't downvote you, I never do that, some dork did that.
A political ideology that advocates for hyperindividualism, selfishness, and protection of private property.
False.
> Gives the actual historically and materially correct definition of liberalism.
> Shitlib: No, here is the actual definition using the source that's the biggest beneficiary of capitalism and imperialism, and is engaged in a genocide.
Edit: And it also talks about its origin embedded in Neo-European aristocratic thought. People who had all the property and money benefitted from this pseudo-liberty and freedom of speech, while the working class suffered. Idk why you just posted a self-own! 😂
The purpose of a system is what it does. The US has been doing shit like this for centuries at this point.