Talk:Liberalism

Quote: "Modern usage and definitions In Europe and Latin America, " Should include: Japan, Australia, South korea, Russia, The whole of south-east asia. When Liberal or liberalism is used it means center-right. ~2025-32507-85 (talk)

Being liberal is a political position on the political scale that is center toward the middle. The stance in the article is far left "Liberal feminism, the dominant tradition in feminist history, is an individualistic form of feminist theory that focuses on women's ability to maintain their equality through their actions and choices. Liberal feminists hope to eradicate all barriers to gender equality, claiming that the continued existence of such barriers eviscerates the individual rights and freedoms ostensibly guaranteed by a liberal social order." Please refer to the political spectrum before you radicalize the paper. thank you https://www.britannica.com/topic/political-spectrum 2603:7000:B901:8500:A50C:5B0D:F547:78DB (talk) 01:30, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

You sure? . YBSOne (talk) 08:52, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

Do you know what the term far left means? OmegaAOL (talk) 01:19, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi - I tagged this article as AI generated; this is only a suspicion and not proof, but the recent edits by Ksh.andronexus show several indications of potential LLM use and thus need review for accuracy, tone, AI-generated "original research," sourcing issues, etc. Gnomingstuff (talk) 19:14, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

"with one political scientist^[who?] calling American liberalism "bootleg social democracy" "

Linked source is: Susser, Bernard. Political ideology in the modern world. Upper Saddle River: Allyn and Bacon, 1995. ISBN 0-02-418442-X. p. 110.

The original source says "American welfare liberalism has in fact been viewed as a bootleg social democracy.", the author is Bernard Susser, same as the source. That part should be edited. CloudUchiha (talk) 02:17, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

It is hard to understand why there are so few posts here in Talk, none at all for many months last year, and none at all for the past month. And yet, in that time, there have been major changes to the article. Any suggestions why this is? Rick Norwood (talk) 21:07, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

I cannot see any major changes, although there have been numerous small changes. The main criticism I have of the article is the removal of the observation that liberalism is based on equality, which was replaced by equality before the law. The reason liberals support equality before the law is that they believe all humans are equal.

Liberals of course differ on the consequences that humans are equal, but don't question it. Jim Crow for example was defended on the basis of "separate but equal." Of course we can challenge the authenticity of that claim, but it is important that the proponents could only argue on liberal precepts. TFD (talk) 04:57, 25 January 2026 (UTC)