“I will never back down in speaking truth to power. The apartheid government of Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.”

  • Aqarius@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    In the context of US political system, it’s opposite of “conservative”. In the context of European politics, it’s libertarian. In the context of leftist politics, it’s “centrist”, or rather “center-right”.

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      Things are even more complicated than that due to the existence of liberal anti-capitalists that interpret the liberal theory of inalienable rights, which originated in the abolitionist, democratic and feminist movements, as also invalidating the employer-employee contract.

      In other words, there is overlap between liberals and leftists as well

      @progressivepolitics

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        5 months ago

        I reckon it’s safe to assume it’s option three. On lemmy, option one tends to include a slur, and option two tends to be in German.