Well, they were at least partially successful, then. If you’re really “liberal” then you believe in at least some parts of capitalism and think thay the “bad” parts can be “fixed”.
When one person uses a word with an unusual meaning, they’re just wrong. When a whole country does it it’s a difference of dialect. Are you gonna try to argue that American English is wrong?
Ditto for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK; aka North Korea). People often intentionally misuse words to obfuscate their true intentions, particularly those with an authoritarian or fascist slant.
Well, they were at least partially successful, then. If you’re really “liberal” then you believe in at least some parts of capitalism and think thay the “bad” parts can be “fixed”.
Unless you’re talking to an American and making an incorrect assumption about what they mean by “liberal”.
In which case I would still stress the importance of understanding what the fuck “liberal” actually means
When one person uses a word with an unusual meaning, they’re just wrong. When a whole country does it it’s a difference of dialect. Are you gonna try to argue that American English is wrong?
Yes, just because nazis called themselves “national socialists” didn’t actually make them socialists in any shape or form.
Ditto for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK; aka North Korea). People often intentionally misuse words to obfuscate their true intentions, particularly those with an authoritarian or fascist slant.
That’s a bad analogy.
Liberals are what socialists become when they grow up.
Lol sure mate