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[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago (6 children)

In a fight between socialism and fascism, liberals will ALWAYS support the fascists.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

the DNC arnt liberal though, they are center right, Dinos for the most part.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Liberal just means they support capitalism as opposed to socialism or feudalism, it covers everyone from Scandinavian social democrats to Javier Gerardo Milei.

Liberalism: A Counter History is free on Annie's Archive, it goes through the major liberal philosophers, their role in society, and how they handled the contradictions of liberalism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Those seem like some major contradictions of the concept of liberty. Ty for the book reccomendation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Contradictions arise in any ideology, theres no platonic liberalism or socialism to compare practices against, just the utility they've had for the societies (or at least those in power) that used them.

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