While none of us were precisely born as liberals, the vast majority of us were raised as such.

If you could reach back in time to the past version of you that remained under the illusions of liberalism, what would you say?

  • SunsetFruitbat [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    I'm not entirely sure but maybe I'd show some things said from people like Stalin or Lenin and others. While showing they're not as bad as people or institutions say they were. Since I saw someone quoting Stalin once and it made me go "Huh Stalin said that? That was pretty good, what do I even know about Stalin anyways?" But seeing something like this helped.

    But we did not build this society in order to restrict personal liberty but in order that the human individual may feel really free. We built it for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks. It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.

    Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.