Liberalism is the ideology that says everyone should have equal rights, freedom of speech etc except “bad/troublesome actors”.
In practice, bad/troublesome actors can include anyone. This ideology was created in early USA and in britain. And its proponents, on one hand said “equal rights for all” but also had slaves. In britain, liberals supported the subjugation of india because india was “a bunch of barbaric savages who needed to be civilized”. Today immigrants or religious minorities are also excluded from these rights under the pretense of national security.
What we have today is neo-liberalism, that extends liberalism to include economic policies such as capitalism, and finance banking etc. (There’s probably more to it, but i am a bit rusty in my knowledge about this topic).
Liberalism is the ideology that says everyone should have equal rights, freedom of speech etc except “bad/troublesome actors”.
In practice, bad/troublesome actors can include anyone. This ideology was created in early USA and in britain. And its proponents, on one hand said “equal rights for all” but also had slaves. In britain, liberals supported the subjugation of india because india was “a bunch of barbaric savages who needed to be civilized”. Today immigrants or religious minorities are also excluded from these rights under the pretense of national security.
What we have today is neo-liberalism, that extends liberalism to include economic policies such as capitalism, and finance banking etc. (There’s probably more to it, but i am a bit rusty in my knowledge about this topic).
Honest question, what should I call myself then?
Probably a progressive. I assume you want things to get better for everyone, and think we have to do something about the current state of things
It’s a wide label centered around “what could we do today to fix things”