I tell my students that liberals in the US and Europe believe about the same things. But in Europe that puts them on the right of the spectrum, and in the US that puts them at the fr left.
>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 > > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
