Define Liberalism.

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The word Liberal gets thrown around more then even the word Fascist. Liberal this; Liberal that; Your a Liberal; He's a Liberal.
I am not innocent in this. I have a very classic view of the word; referring specifically to the ideas of classical Liberalism.

How do you define Liberalism and does it match up with the way you use the word Liberal?

[IbelieveInanarchy]

I use the word liberal to define someone who adheres to classical liberalism. One who wants personal freedoms and economic "freedoms". Which means the freedom to exploit others for your own economic gain. This vile retardation of the use Liberal mainly in the USA fucks up a lot of discussions. In the USA a liberal seems to refer to someone who is a leftist, which is so far from the truth. I live in Europe and here a liberal would be a person on the right. People referred to as liberals in the USA here would be called social-democrats. Its a shame to see that people on revleft use the vocabulary of the alt-right in calling social-democrats liberals.

[Fellow_Human]

A historically significant and formerly radical ideology and political movement that sprang out of the Age of Enlightenment in Europe to further the interests of the rising bourgeoisie, arguing from values of "liberty" and "equality."

By definition, the liberal ideology is an ideology of capitalism, serving as its theoretical basis. Liberalism and anti-capitalism are mutually exclusive.

In the early days, the radical liberalism of the bourgeoisie was contrasted with the reactionary conservatism of the nobility: capitalism versus feudalism, the republic versus the monarchy, Protestantism/secularism versus clericalism, etc. Today, when the nobility has been swallowed up by the bourgeoisie, liberalism is preferred by much of the petite bourgeoisie, and conservatism by the haute bourgeoisie, especially the landowning groups (fossil fuels, mining, real estate, building & construction, farming & forestry). Neo-liberal policies differ from modern conservative ones by being more internationalist, less supportive of prohibition, and more geared toward limited government.