The Meaning of Liberalism (1938)

&gt;The liberal insists on a bill of rights which will rigidly protect the individual and the minority against encroachments by the government and those elected to exercise power.<p>&gt;But the liberal does not stop here. He insists that the government shall also have and exercise power to see that the rights of the individual and of minorities are not encroached upon by private economic power.

&gt; Therefore, it came about that the liberal movement of our time has been cast largely in the mold of economic liberalism which makes its parallelism to the Jacksonian era more obvious, although none the less real, than its parallel to the Jeffersonian liberalism.<p>This is what happened in Australia. The political party named &quot;The Liberal Party&quot; are conservatives traditionally interested in economic liberalism. Kind of the opposite of the meaning in the US - although this article points to a period in time when the meaning was changing.

I had to keep reminding myself this was written in the 1930s (because of already mentioned confusion around the word &quot;liberal&quot; in the US). But it&#x27;s a sort of sweet story tracing the liberal ideals of Jefferson and company through to Old Hickery (Jackson) and his rural populism and why the progressive movements can be seen as an outgrowth of that original liberalism. Would read again.

No matter what they say every group&#x27;s goal is grabbing the power

Liberalism is dressed up as good in the same way the communist fight against the triad of oppression is dressed up as good.<p>Both processes openly aim to remove the properties of gender, race and class from the population.<p>What is left are sexless nationless unprotected atomized individuals at the mercy of the state (controlled by a small group of men who control global finance) - and these people are unmotivated unloved nameless slaves basically

&quot;But our acceptance of those property rights is subject to the important qualification that the interests of men and of society come first and that warns us both the misunderstanding and the hostility of conservatives.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s how socialism is defined, that the interests of society come first.