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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 2 weeks ago (26 children)

The cope in the imitation .ml thread is funny.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

I find it really funny how libs see the US losing its geopolitical dominance as a bad thing.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

So when I see libs (liberals?) in reference to right-sided groups, that’s different than what the US calls “liberal” yea? Because I thought, in the US, the liberals were left. No?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Liberalism is inherently a right wing ideology. You have political liberalism which focuses on all these wholesome ideas like individual freedoms and democracy that are used to market it. But economic liberalism is the meat of the system and it centers around markets, private property, and wealth accumulation. So the whole idea that liberalism supports everyone’s freedom is fundamentally incompatible with enshrining private property rights as sacred because that removes them from political debate.

Equating private property with individual freedom provides the foundational justification for the rich to keep their wealth while ignoring the needs of everyone else. So all the talk of freedom and democracy ends up being just a fig leaf for capitalist relations.

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