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It is ironic that “neoliberalism” consists of economically liberal ideas commonly considered conservative today: privatization, fiscal austerity, deregulation,

• alienjr 10y ago
  What's so ironic in that? This was the agenda of the liberals since the Scottish Enlightenment.
  • nibs 10y ago
    The irony is that liberal today means the government takes more money, and gives it to "the people". Which is not remotely classical liberal.
    • alienjr 10y ago
      Maybe in your country. In mine liberal still means liberal.
• cylinder 10y ago
  Liberal is the correct term to describe those economic positions. Using liberal to describe left wing politics is an American thing.
• cuchoi 10y ago
  As far as I know, only the US describe economically liberal ideas as conservative. My theory is that they bundled moral and economic ideas (Republicans are conservative in moral ideas, but economically liberal).