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In reply to the discussion: Hey "some" men of DU [View all]BainsBane
(53,032 posts)The meaning of which is contested, no more so than here on DU. There are people who consider themselves true liberals who are openly hostile to women and people of color. They seem to think political purity is measured by how much one hates Democrats, all while naively buying into national mythology and showing no conception of the role of the state under capitalism. People have contorted the word so that anything they believe is liberal and what others do is RW or centrist. You are one who loves to hurl labels as insults without embarking on any analysis of what that means.
This all reminds me why I never used the term liberal to describe myself and prefer leftist. Classical Liberalism emerged as the political corollary to capitalism and still retains some of that meaning, which is why it is not associated with the left in much of the world.