Bill Lear wrote: > Here, "liberal" to me sounds like today's (American) "conservative":
Liberal in the 19th century sense of favoring "free markets." Still used that way in Europe. Doug ^^^^^^^ CB: I agree. The original bourgeoisie, as they became the ruling class, were liberals relative to the feudal aristocracy and ruling class, who were conservatives. Liberals had the "laissez faire" slogan vis-a-vis the state - leave us alone to do our private enterprise, market thing. In the US, there is historic "reversal" of meaning with New Deal liberalism, which becomes state intervention in economics, public over private concerns. Reaganites successfully build a new anti-New Deal liberal "movement" Neo-liberalism, is a re-reversal of meaning, reverting to the original reference bourgeois , private enterprise liberals, privatization of state enterprise and jobs, etc. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
