• Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
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    3 days ago

    Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property, and equality before the law.

    Left out a VERY important part of that definition there, bucko.

    You fundamentally cannot be a proponent of liberalism without fundamentally supporting capitalism. It’s literally part of the definition of liberalism.

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      Correct. Prior to the concept of liberalism, all property was owned by the king and nobility. Liberalism includes the idea that non-nobles can own property. It also predates the distinction between private and personal property by a good 200 years.

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        Ah, I see, you and I are both arguing with someone who keeps hanging their hat on private property.

        It seems they all do.