• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    The free movement of capital and the pursuit of profits is the purpose of liberalism, including the devastating impacts on the working classes that come from that. Liberalism is the justification for capitalism, not capitalism itself, and the necessary consequences of capitalist plunder is intrinsic to capitalism.

    I recommend reading Domenico Losurdo’s Liberalism - A Counter History.

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        I’m well aware of the history of liberalism and how its apologists try to hide its use to justify colonialism, imperialism, crushing worker movements, etc. I’ve read the dictionary definitions. You aren’t changing the way liberalism functions in real life, just trying to avoid complicity in the damage its caused by trying to paint a better picture of it.