It’s relative. In their most simple definitions, liberalism just means an openness to change while conservatism is resistance to change.
right, so i guess i’d call liberals ‘progressives’.
Classical liberalism is a different term than liberalism. Classical liberalism is a free-market economic ideology that dates back 200 years.
i suspected whenever i talked to someone in the US and they told me they were liberals they weren’t referring to John Locke’s ideology, but to something else. i guess they’re as leftist as it gets there, huh?
In America our liberals are not as far left as social democrats, typically.
it’s a shame that even the left in the US isn’t that far left, to be honest. i wish the leftwing were stronger there.