Liberals are explicitly not socialist; they prioritize individual rights over collective rights (including the right for an individual to own private property and to exploit the labour of others) and typically just want capitalism with a safety net
They seem to have no idea what “liberal” actually means (“conservatives” in a capitalist country are just another type of liberal), so they use the term to refer to the type of liberal who cares (or, for many politicians, pretend to care) about social rights
Liberals are explicitly not socialist; they prioritize individual rights over collective rights (including the right for an individual to own private property and to exploit the labour of others) and typically just want capitalism with a safety net
Thanks, I was a little confused about liberalism and the way it relates to libertarianism
I think I often consider liberalism and social liberalism to be closer than they actually are
I think another thing that confuses me here is the use of the phrase “own the libs” by right-aligned communities, what is meant by this phrase?
They seem to have no idea what “liberal” actually means (“conservatives” in a capitalist country are just another type of liberal), so they use the term to refer to the type of liberal who cares (or, for many politicians, pretend to care) about social rights