• lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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    15 hours ago

    You’re basically admitting to poor reading comprehension & ignorance of references cited in the articles.

    Any dipshit knows that an ideology that is pro-capitalism can’t be leftist. That’s just basic politics really.

    Not talking about capitalism, talking about liberalism: liberal leftists exist. Some are socialist. Political scientists recognize them as leftist. Deal with it.

    As the article you mischaracterize states

    Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy

    not an economic one.

    liberalism is about liberty from unlimited authority

    As the name indicates, liberalism concerns liberty: it’s essentially the position that

    • governments exist for the people
    • individual human rights & liberties are fundamental
    • authority is legitimate only when it protects those fundamental rights & liberties
    • the people have an inherent right to obtain a government with legitimate authority.

    In particular, when their government lacks or loses legitimacy, the people have a right & duty to replace or change that government until it obtains legitimacy. Such a government prohibits unlimited authority, so it’s mutually exclusive with authoritarianism.

    The article continues that liberalism is

    based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property, and equality before the law

    which reaffirms earlier points & then some. It emerged from the Enlightenment when the authoritarianism of its time was the exclusive power & social hierarchy of feudal, absolute monarchy & aristocracy.

    Liberalism sought to replace the norms of hereditary privilege, state religion, absolute monarchy, the divine right of kings and traditional conservatism with representative democracy, rule of law, and equality under the law.

    Anyone who read history or philosophy & thought seriously would know this.