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Dems keep working with trump to approve his picks, but what they won't accept is that if you sit down at a table with nazis, the only thing that's changed is the number of nazis at the table. @_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Liberalism is by definition capitalist. It’s what gave us capitalism. So unless you only follow the social aspects (ie. social liberalism), then I don’t think it can be truly leftist, as in anti-capitalist.
I see liberals more as social group than a capitalist one. The "free market" shit is tacked on by rich neolibs working the other side of the fence
I mean liberalism is by definition capitalist.
But I understand the usage of the word, especially in the US in recent times, has tended to mean something more akin to center-left.
"centre-left" in the US of course meaning "vaguely remembers being told nazis aren't good" in the rest of the world