The Left, rather than the Right, is the True Heir of Liberalism

The Left often makes the cardinal error of considering liberalism as a tar and an anathema. We have to remind people that liberalism is not only the free market it is also liberty. The Left must not be the gravedigger of liberalism for it is its heir. It took what was good in liberalism, which is the intellectual values and added the idea of equality. Therefore, liberalism belongs to the Left more than it belongs to the Right, which only took from liberalism an extreme notion of a free market and globalization. The intellectual values of liberalism belong to the Left. Today, the Far-Left struggles to build an antiliberal front. In the tumultuous history of the 20th century, there have been antiliberal fronts, which haven't known much success. Fascism was also a form of antiliberalism, which kept the free market but rejected the intellectual and moral values of liberalism. That terrible error must never be repeated.

To call oneself as antiliberal is not only proclaim oneself anticapitalist, it is being opposed to liberal values. We do a great disservice to the Left, to liberty, to democracy by associating the intellectual and moral values of liberalism with the most despicable capitalist exploitation. The Left must take back liberalism, which rightfully belongs to it!