I’m not from the US, so I might be misinterpreting something, but I imagine that it stems from a sentiment that liberalism is inherently in favor of the status quo and capitalism, which makes sense from a materialist perspective, and thus liberalism would be a bourgeois conservative ideology, under that interpretation. A view that I also tend to share, mind you.
I think you hit the nail on the head, yeah. I’m of the same opinion.
I’ve seen some militant MLs drag the DSA and progressive politicians as “sheepdogs”, which personally I think does us a disservice. It’s understandable for people to have a dim view of incremental change. But in my mind, we need to attack the status quo from as many angles as we can, within the system and without.
I’m not from the US, so I might be misinterpreting something, but I imagine that it stems from a sentiment that liberalism is inherently in favor of the status quo and capitalism, which makes sense from a materialist perspective, and thus liberalism would be a bourgeois conservative ideology, under that interpretation. A view that I also tend to share, mind you.
I think you hit the nail on the head, yeah. I’m of the same opinion.
I’ve seen some militant MLs drag the DSA and progressive politicians as “sheepdogs”, which personally I think does us a disservice. It’s understandable for people to have a dim view of incremental change. But in my mind, we need to attack the status quo from as many angles as we can, within the system and without.