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Liberal in most of the rest of the world usually means something similar to "neoliberal" which is usually thought of as a moderate or conservative ideology. Wh
by culi 5y ago
Liberal in most of the rest of the world usually means something similar to "neoliberal" which is usually thought of as a moderate or conservative ideology.
When you say liberal, do you mean it in the way it's used in the US (a stand-in for "leftist") or the way it's used in the rest of the world?
- NovemberWhiskey 5y agoRed is almost uniformly a more-left/pro-labor political color outside the U.S.
- eyelidlessness 5y agoMore left than conservative, but not leftist in the blanket sense usually used in the US.
- nopenopenopeno 5y agoRed has been the symbolic color of every socialist movement since the French Revolution.
- eyelidlessness 5y agoYou are correct and I intended to reply to a different comment! I was distracted by my pup while eating dinner.
- monkeybutton 5y agoFrom what I understand, I'm using it in the neoliberal sense.
- nopenopenopeno 5y agoIn America, “conservative” and “liberal” both mean neoliberal.
- gurkendoktor 5y agoThis is a recent development. When gay marriage was less popular among voters a couple decades ago, "conservative" meant "neoconservatism", which was exactly the same as neoliberalism, but without the LGBT+. (I hope that I have now successfully offended every political ideology that claims to have centuries of philosophical backing behind it.)
- nopenopenopeno 5y agoHaha, you’re right.