• Cowbee@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    No, this is quite wrong.

    Conservatives wish to maintain the status quo and pull back changes made to the status quo.

    Liberalism is an ideology of free-market Capitalism and personal liberty.

    Neither directly cares about the size of government as long as it stays within those boundaries.

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      1 year ago

      Liberalism is the ideology of personal liberty, from which capitalist-like principles emerge (eg private property rights). It’s a small distinction but an important one in my opinion. Enlightenment philosophers didn’t set out to enslave humanity under the thumb of capitalism - they set out to create an idealistic ethic around the rights of the individual and accidentally created a new form of economic feudalism.

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        1 year ago

        Sure! They were wrong, of course, but that’s why I mentioned that it’s centered on personal liberty with the principles of Capitalism.