• Bruno_Myers@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Just not being radical and accepting that some things don’t require extreme solutions gets you labelled a conservative these days

    no it doesn’t.

    • Pipoca@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      College communists will absolutely label the entire democratic party right wing, and will call liberalism a fundamentally conservative philosophy. If you’re surrounded by literal communists, accepting that maybe a literal revolution isn’t the best idea will absolutely get you called a conservative.

      That’s not really a new phenomenon, though. The German communist party literally labeled the social democrat party fascists, and thought they were just as bad as the nazis. Turns out they were kinda wrong about that.

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        1 year ago

        College communists will absolutely label the entire democratic party right wing, and will call liberalism a fundamentally conservative philosophy.

        I mean. I’m no college communist. But neither of those assertions are particularly out there?

        When compared with parties in other democracies, the Democrats are pretty right-wing on many issues. And it’s not strange to refer to liberalism as a conservative philosophy, it tends to place emphasis on private property, free-market economics, and capitalism. There are places where the conservative party are “The Liberals”.

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          1 year ago

          Liberalism, as in the philosophy, isn’t inherently pro-capitalism. There have been liberals that are opposed to capitalism.

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            That is why I said “tends” to favour capitalism. Which I don’t think is unfair. Liberalism has also been built upon for a long time, so one would expect to find a lot of variation.