• OwOarchist@pawb.social
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    If you believe in democracy, personal rights, and capitalism … congrats, you’re a liberal.

    (Though, given how much modern ‘conseravtives’ hate democracy and personal rights, a lot of them aren’t really liberal anymore. They’re fascist.)

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          Nope, socialist democracy exists and is a break from individualist styles of democracy espoused by liberalism.

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            It’s fully within the principles of self-governance and communal determination which are core tenets and flow from classical liberalism.

            Try again.

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              How does, say, China’s model of Whole Process People’s Democracy, a form of democracy based on consultative democracy, flow from classical liberalism? Liberal models of voting for parties or single representatives don’t map at all to China’s form of democracy, yet China is consistently seen as more democratic by its own citizens than liberal democracies are by their own citizens:

              These are stark differences and are reflective of Marxism as opposed to liberalism.

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      If you believe in democracy, personal rights, and capitalism

      🎼 One of these things 🎶 Is not like the other 🎶

      🎼 One of these things 🎶 Is not like its brother 🎶

      given how much modern ‘conservatives’ hate democracy and personal rights

      “This far and no further” politics is a pox on conservatives and liberals alike. This is one of the reasons you see Gavin Newsom fucking around with TERFs in the name of fairness in college athletics. Its one of the reasons why so many people soured on Barack Obama inside his first term.

      “Personal Rights” always seem to terminate at the edge of popular consensus.

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        🎼 One of these things 🎶 Is not like the other 🎶

        Well, yeah. It’s perfectly acceptable to believe in two of those things and not the third.

        That just means you’re not a liberal.

        (And really, since capitalism constantly corrodes democracy and personal rights, being a liberal is kind of a self-contradictory nonsense stance. Shame that so many people still are liberals.)