I’m just not really sure what point you’re trying to make. Why are you bringing up people who have been dead for hundreds of years? Their context was so radically different than anything we have ever or will ever experience that their liberalism is a fundamentally different movement than the liberalism of today.
Yes, but read the last part of my comment. There are still some liberals today who would not be considered conservative. They still believe in liberal democracy, individual freedom and open to revolution if it comes to it, but they are skeptical of economic liberalism. So yes, context still matters, which transcends time and space.
If someone is open to the idea of replacing liberal democracy with a different system, that is them being open to not being a liberal. If they want to replace out current system with an extremely similar system with the hope that it won’t turn out like this again, that’s still conservative at its core.
I’m just not really sure what point you’re trying to make. Why are you bringing up people who have been dead for hundreds of years? Their context was so radically different than anything we have ever or will ever experience that their liberalism is a fundamentally different movement than the liberalism of today.
Yes, but read the last part of my comment. There are still some liberals today who would not be considered conservative. They still believe in liberal democracy, individual freedom and open to revolution if it comes to it, but they are skeptical of economic liberalism. So yes, context still matters, which transcends time and space.
If someone is open to the idea of replacing liberal democracy with a different system, that is them being open to not being a liberal. If they want to replace out current system with an extremely similar system with the hope that it won’t turn out like this again, that’s still conservative at its core.
Liberal democracy is, well, liberal democracy. It doesn’t just mean capitalism.