No, you don’t get to decide which personal freedoms count & which don’t in what they stand for: they stand for personal freedoms.
Liberalism is broad, and the linked site on party classifications shows it’s neither left nor right wing, though more specific subclassifications can be placed somewhere.
Broadly
it favours free markets, free trade, limited governments, low taxes and private property (economic liberalism) as well as equality for all citizens under the law, civil rights, secularism and freedom of speech and religion.
You’re neglecting subclassification
Social liberalism: Social liberal parties stress civil and human rights and favour a social market economy.
which is leftist.
Leftism is the pursuit of equality/egalitarianism.
Let’s not pretend conservative liberalism or neoliberalism is the only liberalism.
No, you don’t get to decide which personal freedoms count & which don’t in what they stand for: they stand for personal freedoms.
I don’t decide. I analyse. Liberals focus on negative freedoms. That is political reality.
Liberalism is broad, and the linked site on party classifications shows it’s neither left nor right wing, though more specific subclassifications can be placed somewhere. Broadly
OP meant liberal parties in the political context of the so-called “USA”. In that context, liberalism is right wing.
You’re neglecting subclassification
How. Your quote conicides with my argument. Liberalism is in favour of capitalism.
which is leftist. Leftism is the pursuit of equality/egalitarianism.
No. Watch the videos. Leftism is in favour of dismantling existing hierarchichal power structures in favour of equality. A “social market economy” is still capitalist.
Let’s not pretend conservative liberalism or neoliberalism is the only liberalism.
They have vital things in common. And I (and OOP) oppose pretty much the complete intersection.
Back to topic: Liberals in the US definetly opposed the abolition of ICE. Probably because of the whole “rule of law” bu&iness in liberalism and because they think that ICE protects the interests of capital.
Liberalism
The pursuit of personal freedom is right-wing? I didn’t know that. I still don’t know that!
Does the left-wing oppose personal freedom as a top priority?
I don’t know what source that is and I don’t want to open that link again.
Liberalism also has the guarantee of private property as another “most important goal”, which is why the ideology is so in favour of capitalism.
Also, liberals mostly focus on negative freedom, i.e. freedom from inhibitions, while e.g. leftists focus on freedom to do something.
So, yeah. Focusing on the freedom to squeeze your tenants for rent, destroy the environment, exploit your fellow humans, etc. is right wing.
If you really want to understand the “left-right” political framework, I can’t recommends the channel “what is politics” on youtube enough. This video should be a short intro to the topic, while this one goes into more detail.
No, you don’t get to decide which personal freedoms count & which don’t in what they stand for: they stand for personal freedoms.
Liberalism is broad, and the linked site on party classifications shows it’s neither left nor right wing, though more specific subclassifications can be placed somewhere. Broadly
You’re neglecting subclassification
which is leftist. Leftism is the pursuit of equality/egalitarianism.
Let’s not pretend conservative liberalism or neoliberalism is the only liberalism.
I don’t decide. I analyse. Liberals focus on negative freedoms. That is political reality.
OP meant liberal parties in the political context of the so-called “USA”. In that context, liberalism is right wing.
How. Your quote conicides with my argument. Liberalism is in favour of capitalism.
No. Watch the videos. Leftism is in favour of dismantling existing hierarchichal power structures in favour of equality. A “social market economy” is still capitalist.
They have vital things in common. And I (and OOP) oppose pretty much the complete intersection.
Back to topic: Liberals in the US definetly opposed the abolition of ICE. Probably because of the whole “rule of law” bu&iness in liberalism and because they think that ICE protects the interests of capital.