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Ah, gotcha.
Are the Greens/Labour liberals or Left in that sense?
I don't think they are calling for abolishment of property rights.
I am not sure what to think lately, I always thought housing associations and strong government control are fine but perhaps it is not a structural solution in the end and anarcho-socialism is the only way. This is what happens if you listen to Youtube at work :)
JWestland
Eejit
I mean it in the sense big L liberalism, the political philosophy. The majority of Conservatives are still liberals, they are just right wing liberals (there’s a Libertarian and Fascist fringe obvs). Left liberals like to pretend the differences they have with right liberals are substantive, but they are in agreement on the main issues - the primacy of property rights and the market, the composition of government, the authority of the state - and agree on more than they disagree. see, for example, the way a left liberal recoils to the warm embrace of a Tory when presented with an actual socialist.
The term is a useful catch all for the gamut of mainstream/acceptable political opinion in the West. It’s also helpful to distinguish left liberals from the Left, which left liberals often like to imagine themselves as being part of.