like is a radlib basically a social democrat or someone that really, really wants liberalism spread everywhere?
Liberals that see all the problems we do, and earnestly want to change things, but also want to do it through the current social/political/economic policies that has caused the problems to begin with
someone who has decent politics in one or two spots but has utterly missed the boat on how various struggles are connected. so they're very concerned about racial justice and might even be doing serious work with communities but they're pro-policing anyway and definitely not anti-capitalist. this is kind of the inverse of someone who's reached anti-capitalism but thinks we need to appease the white working class by being as bigoted as their worst imaginations.
Daniel Radlib is the star of the beloved film series JK Rowling And The Chamber of TERF Shit
ah yes... J.K and the:
Pedants Testicles, Chamber of TERFS, Prisoner of Azerbaijan, Gibbet of Blairites, Order of the Hogs, Miscegenation Prince, Deadly Marshmallows
a beloved series the world over.
A lib is someone whose only connections to the political world is Harry Potter. A radlib is also capable of connecting to politics through game of thrones
A Radlib is the Liberal version of a Trot. A Radlib is born from a similar socioeconomic alienation as a Communist, however instead of determining that the institutions are hopeless, they come to the conclusion that the institutions have been hijacked by bad people and need to be rescued - by militant force if necessary. A true Radlib will go on to write blog posts with captivating titles such as "The Constitution Betrayed."
i use it for breadtube succ dems who adopt left wing politics as their aesthetic and anarchists who think that china and cuba are the greatest threats to the world rn
Liberalism with a veneer of radicalism. Depending on who you ask that could mean any combination of socdems, extreme idpol libs, or anarchists.
A contradiction in terms, which is probably the point.
The word "radical" has become mostly a pejorative now, but the first "radicals" were called that because that's what they called themselves. The word "radical" is just Latin for "having roots" (e.g. the radical sign in math representing a square root). "Radical politics" means a politics that attempts to change society by attacking problems at the roots, whatever the conception of those roots. For us, that means attacking capitalism.
A Liberal is someone who puts primary emphasis on personal liberty, especially as regards to personal and private property rights. In America, where words mean nothing, it instead means a zealot of the American Civil Religion (in which America is The Land of Liberty, so I guess this checks out?).
But either way the current international order is (mostly) a Liberal one, where property rights are enforced by international economic and military policy. If that's the root of the current system, then a "radical Liberal" is an oxymoron.
the thing we're going to purge when we get power :mao-aggro-shining:
I've been using it for militant liberals like Thomas Paine, the ones who really believed in the liberal package of freedom of speech/religion, the sacred right of property, laissez faire economics, etc. and who were also staunch republicans who wouldn't have been okay with constitutional monarchy as a matter of principal. Flexible on social issues - that is to say, they're okay with being racist if it's in fashion. Petit bourgeois vibes
