Cyber Ghost@lemmygrad.ml to Memes@lemmygrad.ml • 1 year agoAmericans: “We should be more like progressive Europe”imagemessage-square27 fedilinkarrow-up1140
arrow-up1140imageAmericans: “We should be more like progressive Europe”Cyber Ghost@lemmygrad.ml to Memes@lemmygrad.ml • 1 year agomessage-square27 Commentsfedilink
minus-squareLarkinDePark@lemmygrad.mlhexbear25·1 year agoThey're all liberal parties though. There are no left parties in NL. Irishman here. linkfedilink
minus-squareDankZedong @lemmygrad.mlhexbear8·1 year agoThere are social democratic parties and to call them liberal would be a bit too much linkfedilink
minus-squareLarkinDePark@lemmygrad.mlhexbear10·1 year agoIs there a difference between a liberal and a social democrat that amounts to a distinction? linkfedilink
minus-squarequarrk [he/him]hexbear9·1 year agoIn practice, no. In theory, liberals believe in the free market while the socdems do not. But both will defend the market as such, which is why socdems are ineffectual and easily duped by bourgeois interests. link
minus-squares0ykaf [he/him]hexbear6·1 year agoa liberal is anyone who believes in the tenets of liberalism, mainly those active in a bourgeois democracy contemporary socdems believe in those, they're libs too link
They're all liberal parties though. There are no left parties in NL. Irishman here.
There are social democratic parties and to call them liberal would be a bit too much
Is there a difference between a liberal and a social democrat that amounts to a distinction?
In practice, no. In theory, liberals believe in the free market while the socdems do not. But both will defend the market as such, which is why socdems are ineffectual and easily duped by bourgeois interests.
a liberal is anyone who believes in the tenets of liberalism, mainly those active in a bourgeois democracy
contemporary socdems believe in those, they're libs too