They do the same thing as the right, where their politics is defined by “maximum freedom” and any divergence is a step towards the opposite pole. This is why rightists call Hitler a communist, and why radlibs call Stalin a fascist. They are unreformed libertarians lmao.
Liberals in general believe themselves to be the furthest left you can rationally be. Anything to their left is unreasonable, counterproductive, and functionally right-wing.
Even in undergrad humanities classes I see this all the time from lib professors. “Even in capitalist countries, some socialist policies like public education and healthcare are adopted” ??? I guess it’s good because it makes ‘socialism’ less of a scary word but it also makes it impossible to gauge what anyone is talking about because I mean expropriation of all major industries by a dictatorship of the proletariat, while they mean UBI or something.
They do the same thing as the right, where their politics is defined by “maximum freedom” and any divergence is a step towards the opposite pole. This is why rightists call Hitler a communist, and why radlibs call Stalin a fascist. They are unreformed libertarians lmao.
Liberals in general believe themselves to be the furthest left you can rationally be. Anything to their left is unreasonable, counterproductive, and functionally right-wing.
Some liberals even call themselves socialists because they saw a facebook meme saying the fire department is socialist.
Even in undergrad humanities classes I see this all the time from lib professors. “Even in capitalist countries, some socialist policies like public education and healthcare are adopted” ??? I guess it’s good because it makes ‘socialism’ less of a scary word but it also makes it impossible to gauge what anyone is talking about because I mean expropriation of all major industries by a dictatorship of the proletariat, while they mean UBI or something.