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    You’re taking the definition linked at face value and not doing further investigation into what it means and its material repercussions.

    In a capitalistic society capital and the right to private property is above all, including the individual, it is by all means sacred and must be respected. This means that despite having more empty homes than homeless people, these people can’t be located into these empty homes because the property is above them, they don’t matter.

    The supposed “rights of the individual” is just the individualization of the self in detriment of the collective. Despite us being social animals that depend on each other, said rights and constant capitalistic propaganda sells us the idea that we are single individuals that are responsible for everything around us. Phrases like “If you get get fired its your own fault and you should pull yourself by your own bootstraps”, “if you get sick that’s your own fault”, “if you become homeless that’s your own fault”, etc. It’s never the system in place that prioritizes profit and private property above you. It also doesn’t matter that someone is racist because that’s their individual right of free speech, despite that hurting society as a whole, it’s the individual above the collective.

    “Liberty” for who? If your choice is to pay rent or be homeless, that’s not a choice. If you have to worry about keeping a roof above your head, not getting fired, if you can pay your bills, if you can afford food, then you’re not free. The only ones that are free are the bourgeoisie, as they hold all the power in a capitalistic society.

    I can’t accept this label. They are conservatives/fascists. Not liberal.

    The Republicans maintain capitalism, just like Democrats do. They are both liberals because liberalism is the status quo of capitalism. Of course there is neoliberalism too, but as the name implies, it is a “new” type of liberalism. They are by all metrics liberals. Further right than the Democrats, sure, but liberals none the less. They fit into defending the things I explained above, just like the Democrats also do.

    If you arent distinguishing between ideology, party and individual then I don’t think you fully understand capitalism.

    I’m literally talking to you from a marxist instance. I don’t claim to know everything about capitalism, but I do think I have a better grasp than most liberals on this.

    Furthermore, what do you mean with distinguishing ideology from party and individual? Ideology is present in both these things. Capitalistic liberal ideology as the status quo, maintains itself by being ever present in the collective mind of the people as the only viable solution. You can’t separate these things because they are deeply interlinked, both the individual and the party are not separated from ideology.

    The genocide in Palestine is wrong because they cannot have a right as individuals, they do not have liberty, they have not had an election allowed to be held since 2008, they have no political equality, they have no right to private property and settlers can kick them out, they are not equal to Jews under the law.

    No, a genocide doesn’t stop being wrong when the genocided population have rights. Also you completely ignore Palestine as a country, which grants the Palestinians rights, even tho Israel doesn’t since it is a settler colonial genocide entity.

    Any true liberal would support Palestine from your own source.

    Anyone with a shred of empathy supports Palestine. The question of a liberal supporting Palestine or not on ideological grounds is settled in if the liberal believes in the legitimacy of Israel or not, and anyone that does believe that, doesn’t support Palestinians in any way whatsoever.

    Israel is not a legitimate state, it was a settler colonial project from its very inception. That’s why we have 75+ years of a genocide happening that the world brushes off and does nothing about.

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      14 days ago

      You’re taking the definition linked at face value and not doing further investigation into what it means and its material repercussions.

      No, I am a liberal. These are my values.

      In a capitalistic society capital and the right to private property is above all, including the individual, it is by all means sacred and must be respected. This means that despite having more empty homes than homeless people, these people can’t be located into these empty homes because the property is above them, they don’t matter.

      Perfectly said. Yes this reveals the inherent conflict between capitalism and liberalism.

      Liberalism says “homeless should be housed”, capitalism says “I’m not paying for it”.

      Liberalism demands the answer “yes you will” but capitalists have bought up all the media and politicians so we don’t have the power to force them.

      The supposed “rights of the individual” is just the individualization of the self in detriment of the collective.

      Get specific. My right to freedom of movement from one state to another is detrimental for the collective why?

      Despite us being social animals that depend on each other, said rights and constant capitalistic propaganda sells us the idea that we are single individuals that are responsible for everything around us.

      Please separate liberal ideology from capitalist propaganda.

      Conflating them like this isn’t going to convince me. The capitalist propaganda is bad, the honest liberal thinkers are not.

      If you get get fired its your own fault and you should pull yourself by your own bootstraps,

      That’s not true. Unemployment exists and liberals constantly argue to expand welfare and introduce UBI.

      The idea of “stimulus checks” was a liberal one.

      if you get sick that’s your own fault

      Not true, healthcare should be a right. You’re the one talking about getting rid of our “supposed” rights.

      It also doesn’t matter that someone is racist because that’s their individual right of free speech, despite that hurting society as a whole, it’s the individual above the collective.

      Okay! That’s an actual argument.

      That’s true. Liberalism says “that guys wrong and bad” but there’s nothing they can do until the man breaks the law.

      The idea behind this is that this is a limitation in the state, not individuals.

      Go punch a nazi. Go tell them to fuck off.

      The state won’t do it for you, but the state also won’t censor you in return when you talk about “controversial” stuff like LGBTQ rights, communism, etc.

      If that’s not a compelling enough reason feel free to argue against that specific right.

      “Liberty” for who?

      According to liberalism, for all.

      If your choice is to pay rent or be homeless, that’s not a choice. If you have to worry about keeping a roof above your head, not getting fired, if you can pay your bills, if you can afford food, then you’re not free. The only ones that are free are the bourgeoisie, as they hold all the power in a capitalistic society.

      Agreed. The type of capitalism liberals consented to was heavily regulated and based on competition.

      Liberals aren’t supposed to like capitalism. At most, a liberal can tolerate it in the moment while it’s working but that moment has long since passed and capitalism is the main threat to liberalism right now.

      Capitalists are trying to purge the liberals from making reforms and replacing them with fascists, which is pushing people further left from that for better allies.

      The Republicans maintain capitalism, just like Democrats do. They are both liberals because liberalism is the status quo of capitalism.

      There is lot in this short bit I need to correct.

      The Republicans conserve capitalism because they’re **conservative((.

      The Democrats maintain capitalism (instead of progrssing beyond it) because their party is owned by capitalists…

      You need money to run a campaign, it’s impossible for any ideology (no matter how hostile to capitalism) to end up as a major party (at least in our current system) because it requires the capitalists to donate to those parties to have anywhere close to the resources needed to run a campaign.

      Of course there is neoliberalism too, but as the name implies, it is a “new” type of liberalism.

      Look at Bill Clinton who is typically the example of a neoliberal.

      It’s not a “new” type of liberalism, it’s just centrism.

      They are by all metrics liberals. Further right than the Democrats, sure, but liberals none the less. They fit into defending the things I explained above, just like the Democrats also do.

      If you arent distinguishing between ideology, party and individual then I don’t think you fully understand capitalism.

      I’m literally talking to you from a marxist instance. I don’t claim to know everything about capitalism, but I do think I have a better grasp than most liberals on this.

      Opposing capitalism doesn’t mean you know more about it.

      Furthermore, what do you mean with distinguishing ideology from party and individual?

      What liberal ideology says you should do is not exactly equal to what the democrats do nor exactly equal to what John Locke does.

      Ideology is present in both these things. Capitalistic liberal ideology as the status quo, maintains itself by being ever present in the collective mind of the people as the only viable solution.

      Capitalist liberal ideology is a contradiction.

      Liberal ideology says all people are equal. Capitalist ideology says people are worth the value they produce.

      These cannot coexist at the same time.

      To slot them in together, capitalism would need to slice out the very root of liberalism and then wear its skin like cloth. Exactly what they’ve done.

      I deny their botched surgery as the original liberalism I believe in.

      You can’t separate these things because they are deeply interlinked, both the individual and the party are not separated from ideology.

      Yes I can. The majority of liberal voters oppose the genocide. It’s the democrats who are funding it.

      https://truthout.org/articles/poll-finds-6-in-10-democratic-voters-now-back-palestinians-over-israelis/

      Don’t blame liberals when capitalists are the ones doing this shit.

      No, a genocide doesn’t stop being wrong when the genocided population have rights.

      Are you genuinely kidding me? Lmfao. You’re so bad faith for no reason!

      Also you completely ignore Palestine as a country, which grants the Palestinians rights, even tho Israel doesn’t since it is a settler colonial genocide entity.

      I don’t even know how to respond.

      It sounds like you agree with me that Israel is a settler colonial genocidal state who are violating the Palestinians so these last two comments are confusing.

      Liberalism agrees with you that genocide is bad.

      Anyone with a shred of empathy supports Palestine.

      Yeah

      The question of a liberal supporting Palestine or not on ideological grounds is settled in if the liberal believes in the legitimacy of Israel or not, and anyone that does believe that, doesn’t support Palestinians in any way whatsoever.

      That’s not accurate. I already cited data which shows liberals support Palestine over Israel.

      Besides that’s only half the question.

      Let’s say a liberal accepts the legitimacy of Israel. The next step is that they’d have to accept the legitimacy of Palestine on equal terms.

      A liberal would typically default into the 2 state solution.

      A liberal may condemn Oct 7 and say the music festivals shouldn’t be a valid target, but that is a rare exception in a one sided war waged on Palestinians by Israelis.

      There no way a liberal could look at the settler violence and decide Palestine doesn’t have the right to violently oppose that.

      Israel is not a legitimate state, it was a settler colonial project from its very inception. That’s why we have 75+ years of a genocide happening that the world brushes off and does nothing about.

      Yep, then people were born into that situation and now wr have to deal with.

      “Is Israel legitimate?” seems like a bit of a distraction personally when the answer to “are they committing genocide?” is “yes”.

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        There is no separating capitalism and liberalism because liberalism is the ideology of capitalism. You should read the recommendation from comrade Dessalines. You’re arguing for some idealistic version of Liberalism that never existed in the real world. This is not a materialistic view and goes against history itself.

        Get specific. My right to freedom of movement from one state to another is detrimental for the collective why?

        In the US right now? Probably none. Now if you look at China that can be a problem for example, that’s why a milenar system like the Hukou exists. A good example is about rural exodus to urban areas which is a real problem that needs proper tackling, if at a given time it is needed to be controlled, then individual liberties on that should be restricted until the issue is fixed. If that doesn’t happen, you end up with what happened here in Brasil, the formation of favelas.

        Also, I got more specific in that same paragraph when I talked about the right of free speech and racism as an example.

        That’s not true. Unemployment exists and liberals constantly argue to expand welfare and introduce UBI.

        You’re misunderstanding me here, I didn’t meant to use that as actual argument, I was citing that as examples of the propaganda itself. I don’t believe these things, I believe the issue is the system. I should have put those between quotation marks, my bad. I’m not gonna respond to the next ones citing that, because I’m not making that argument.

        Also, I don’t believe UBI is the answer, as it doesn’t fix the underlying issue, capitalism itself.

        The state won’t do it for you, but the state also won’t censor you in return when you talk about “controversial” stuff like LGBTQ rights, communism, etc.

        Except when they do.

        If that’s not a compelling enough reason feel free to argue against that specific right.

        Here in Brasil, LGBTphobia, racism and nazism are against the law. It’s that simple. And that’s the bare-minimum.

        According to liberalism, for all.

        Only on paper, in practice the ones that brought it are the only ones that are free, like I already argued.

        Agreed. The type of capitalism liberals consented to was heavily regulated and based on competition.

        All capitalism is heavily regulated. Capitalism cannot exist without state intervention. And competition is a lie. Competition naturally leads to monopolization, it is a contradiction of capitalism.

        Capitalists are trying to purge the liberals from making reforms and replacing them with fascists, which is pushing people further left from that for better allies.

        Capitalism cannot purge liberals, because liberals are proponents of capitalism. Furthermore you seem to think liberalism is opposed to fascism, when historically that has been the exact opposite, every time leftists gathered enough power to challenge the capitalistic system, liberals have turned on us and helped the fascists.

        Also related: Malcolm X: White Liberals and Conservatives

        The Republicans conserve capitalism because they’re conservative. The Democrats maintain capitalism.

        So, the exact same thing?

        You need money to run a campaign, it’s impossible for any ideology (no matter how hostile to capitalism) to end up as a major party (at least in our current system) because it requires the capitalists to donate to those parties to have anywhere close to the resources needed to run a campaign.

        That’s why we marxists don’t believe in electoralism, you’re literally pointing out how the whole thing is rigged. We believe in revolution. Electoralism is at best a tool to put our ideas out there to the population and further organize the working class.

        It’s not a “new” type of liberalism, it’s just centrism.

        Bruh. What kind of vibes based analysis is this? Neoliberalism is defined by making the state “smaller” which is done by getting rid of state owned companies, destroying social nets, etc. It is literally capitalism creating new markets for itself by destroying the little the working class might have of rights.

        Just look at the proponents of neoliberalism: Reagan, Tatcher and Pinochet.

        Yes I can. The majority of liberal voters oppose the genocide. It’s the democrats who are funding it.

        These liberals are opposed to the genocide because they have a lick of empathy. Both Democrats and Republicans are pro genocide, because it benefits the US capitalists at home and furthers US’s interests in the middle east. Even a younger Joe Biden admitted that, which I already linked.

        Don’t blame liberals when capitalists are the ones doing this shit.

        Capitalists are doing the genocide. Liberals are enabling them.

        Are you genuinely kidding me? Lmfao. You’re so bad faith for no reason!

        You said, and I quote: “The genocide in Palestine is wrong because they cannot have a right as individuals”. If I’m supposed to interpret that any other way than the way I responded, then you need to rephrase that. My argument is not in bad faith, I’m responding to exactly what you said.

        Let’s say a liberal accepts the legitimacy of Israel. The next step is that they’d have to accept the legitimacy of Palestine on equal terms.

        You clearly ignore the historical context that I already provided. Israel was a settler colonial project from the get go. That is inseparable from the concept of Israel as a country, therefore you cannot accept the legitimacy of both Israel and Palestine as countries. And anyone that says that is wrong and uninformed on the issue at best, or a genocide apologist at worst.

        You cannot make this claim on a vacuum like it doesn’t have a truckload of implications behind it. This is a completely idealistic view of the situation and of the world.

        Again, you’re lacking tangible material analysis.

        A liberal may condemn Oct 7 and say the music festivals shouldn’t be a valid target, but that is a rare exception in a one sided war waged on Palestinians by Israelis.

        And that is still a wrong argument from the liberals. There shouldn’t have been a music festival on fucking occupied territory to begin with. Israel was literally doing a festival while starving and genociding the palestinians, but the moment the palestinians fight back and attack that festival then it is a problem for the liberal.

        There no way a liberal could look at the settler violence and decide Palestine doesn’t have the right to violently oppose that.

        Just lol. I must have hallucinated the amount of “but do you condemn Hamas” liberals I see on the internet then.

        Yep, then people were born into that situation and now wr have to deal with. “Is Israel legitimate?” seems like a bit of a distraction personally when the answer to “are they committing genocide?” is “yes”.

        Bullshit. Palestinians have seen their life go to absolute hell in the spam of a single generation. And both questions are valid, because Israel is not a legitimate state and that needs to be acknowledged because the two state solution doesn’t exist. The only solution is giving back the land to Palestine.

        Also, you ignore how the vast majority of Israel’s population is pro-genociding the Palestinians. Hell, there were protests in Israel for the right to rape Palestinians.

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          14 days ago

          There is no separating capitalism and liberalism because liberalism is the ideology of capitalism.

          I’m liberal, you aren’t.

          The only definition of liberal you will allow is one I do not hold, a strawman that completely contradicts all of my values.

          That’s the end of the conversation then. I’m sorry you wasted your time typing this up.

          If you have anything beyond semantic arguments on labels I would lead with that next time.

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            Lmao, I engaged with all your arguments, but you cannot do the same for me.

            What you call yourself doesn’t matter if you’re completely wrong. The only thing that matters is the tangible reality, which you are going against without providing a single evidence of why you’re right and why I’m wrong, when I argued extensively on my view.

            liberal scratched

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              Hey I’m sorry. I just gave your comment an actual read and only the first paragraph I initially read was bad faith patronizing.

              In the rest you did bring up points worth responding to so I apologize and I will do that in a bit.

              Just keep in mind I may actually have some knowledge in history and just might be able to back up claims I make.

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              Lmao, I engaged with all your arguments, but you cannot do the same for me.

              I will engage with any content in your argument.

              I’m not going to argue with your definition of liberal.

              I would love to keep talking but I’m the liberal, accept my definition of my own system of beliefs or I have nothing to say but “nu uh”.

              liberal scratched

              Wow, scratch a liberal and they’ll tell you not to do that because they don’t like getting scratched.

              How revealing.

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                Then just respond to my arguments.

                scratch a liberal and they’ll tell you not to do that because they don’t like getting scratched.

                No, it’s scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.

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                    You’re still at this? I made several arguments in that comment that you can reply too independent of the definition you use for liberalism, if you’re just gonna continue to be this childish, then I have nothing else to talk about. Either respond to my comment or fuck right off.

                    And since you’re gonna read this, like it or not, your definition of being a liberal has no basis in reality and is based on a theory that was never meant to you, no matter how much mental masturbation you make to justify it. The bourgeoisie used it to put themselves in power and continue to use it to maintain capitalism. You can cry all you want about how capitalism and liberalism as somehow separate, it won’t change reality.

                    Liberalism is a death cult