repurposing a comment from the other day,

reading liberalism: a counter history by domenico losurdo and seeing all these dipshits from 200-300 years ago wanking on with flowery language about the purity of their uncompromising love of liberty, but also slavery is a necessary evil for their own good and the poor are a lesser race of animals who need to have their every moment fully controlled by the state

really feels like the propaganda hasnt changed that much. and it makes it incredibly starkly plain just how much classical liberalism is just the ideological superstructure for the growing rule of the bourgeoisie (in their struggle to establish themselves against the waning aristocracy), and absolutely nothing to do with anyone giving a shit about actual freedom for anyone except themselves