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&feature=youtube_gdata_playerActually, this sounds like Libertarianism not the working class, pro-union, civil rights, anti-poverty, pro-public education, peace liberalism I grew up with in the era of Kennedy and King. My head spins with all the redefinitions of words over the last 20 years or so - that includes Liberal, Conservative, Terrorist, Freedom, Socialism, Fascism and a lot more. It's all starting to sound like word salad.
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What is classical liberalism? (Original Post)
agent46
Nov 2013
OP
This has more to do with RepubliCONS who want to have sex and smoke pot then with
fasttense
Nov 2013
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frazzled
(18,402 posts)1. Because this is a European, not American, political posture
And, indeed, it is closer to what we know as Libertarianism in the US than to anything commonly described as liberalism in the historical sense in the US. Economic liberalism, in the European sense, is a very free-market based philosophy.
So don't worry. This has nothing to do with the idea of liberalism in the United States.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)2. This has more to do with RepubliCONS who want to have sex and smoke pot then with
real American Liberals.
echipamente_ort
(1 post)3. Classical Liberalism
Are some rights fundamentally different from others? In the classical liberal tradition, rights have several characteristics,
I heard. Can anyone detail the characteristics of individual rights? Thanks!
gopiscrap
(23,760 posts)4. welcome to DU