Hemuphone comments on Liberals are catalysts to catastrophe, again

[–] Hemuphone@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Care to explain why liberalism is so tightly nit with capitalism in your opinion? I cannot see a good reason.

I hate late-stage capitalism as much as the next guy, obviously.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Liberalism emerged as the ideological justification for capitalism, the two are intrinsically linked. The basic principles of liberalism are insividualism and free flow of capital. People have used liberalism to justify more progressive social views, but those social views are better represented by ideologies like Marxism-Leninism.

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[–] Hemuphone@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

They may be better represented by marxis-leninism, but that does not mean they cannot be represented by liberalism. It's not so black and white.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I didn't suggest that they were black and white, my point is that liberalism's ties to capitalism are because that's the purpose of liberalism. It emerged as the capitalist class was rising as future justification for the transition from feudalism to capitalism. You cannot have a "liberal socialism," as liberalism is focused on private property rights.

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