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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's the correct meaning of "liberal", yes... as in "libre", meaning "free". It's 'murica that fucked it up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Communists are hardly liberal, in fact by any reasonable political theory definition we're anti-liberal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You make it sound like we're anti freedom rather than nothing to do with liberalism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I can see that. Maybe I'm just too snarky.