according to @Custoslibera’s post
Leftism isn’t a vague, general synonym for “goodness,” nor does it entitled you to use terminology for a right-wing ideology as a synonym for leftism. Even in a philosophical and academic concept, you’d get a bunch of confused looks.
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Capitalists can be open-minded and go against tradition without being left-wing.
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Left vs. Right isn’t about open-mindedness or a sense of futurism, it’s about collective vs. individual ownership of the Means of Production.
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Using an Enlightenment term for a Capitalist ideology as a term to describe leftists is wrong.
That’s why everyone has been pointing out that you’ve been using terms incorrectly. You can either accept that you misspoke, and everyone can move on, or we will be stuck here.
Honestly, let’s be stuck here. I’m tired of repeating myself. There’s nothing to be gained here, you understand what I was trying to say, even if you think my words were wrong, and that’s good enough for me.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not heated, I appreciate that you’ve helped me to understand that I can’t say liberal on the internet because people will misunderstand my intention.
It’s more that you shouldn’t use right wing terms to refer to left wing ideas, it’s generally bad practice to pretend people believe in the opposite of reality.
To be clear, when I did a few university classes on philosophy, the term liberal was used to mean how I was using it. It was not once used to mean anything other than that (except during the first time the concept was introduced to us, when the lecturer said the Australian Liberal Party isn’t liberal).
So for me, liberal is not a right wing term, it is inherently leftist.
