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If you’re a conservative capitalist that would sound good but I’m liberal. My understanding of government and liberalism is consistent with that of people like
by slowhadoken 8mo ago
If you’re a conservative capitalist that would sound good but I’m liberal. My understanding of government and liberalism is consistent with that of people like Bernie Sanders and Noam Chomsky. What you’re suggesting, by their standards, is a paradox.
- Starman_Jones 8mo agoIs either Noam Chomsky or Bernie Sanders a liberal, though? It sounds like you're very confused about what you believe - almost like a conservative's straw man idea of a liberal.
- slowhadoken 8mo agoNoam Chomsky is far left and Bernie Sanders is also more liberal than a Democrat. Here is Sanders saying the same thing I did https://youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0&pp=2AYH https://youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0&pp=2AYH I’m confused, what do you think a liberal is?
- Starman_Jones 8mo agoLiberals are people who believe in liberalism. This necessarily precludes them from being on the far left (and has for well over a century).
- slowhadoken 8mo agoIn the US “liberal” is often used as a short hand for “left wing”, Isaiah Berlin calls it ‘negative liberty’. Noam Chomsky describes himself as a ‘libertarian socialist’ and Bernie Sanders describes himself as a ‘democratic socialist’, both of these political stances are left wing, some would says “far left”.
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