Anonymous
11/1/2025, 6:46:47 PM
No.24847259
>>24846979
>Yeah, that's when the term itself came into use. Its not when the economic system developed
Debatable. Physiocrats were also "liberals" economically. France's first abolition of inner trade barriers, corporations was under the physiocrat Turgot. Not to mention a "free-trade" treaty with England sometime later.
Still, doesn't matter, you're moving the goalposts here. You can't just go correct someone on what liberalism is "supposed to be" and just ignore historical precedent.
>even though America was built explicitly on the idea of liberal economics as its main axiom
What? Even as a non-american I can find obvious counterexamples to this claim: federalist ideology, inner trade barriers, tariffs etc.
>The concept of free trade didn't exist before Frenchmen in the 1800s said the word liberal out loud. Cool story bro
Oh come on, you play the role of the common sense guy when you tried to criticize an anon for using a contemporary definition instead of one that has no historical basis.
>Yeah, that's when the term itself came into use. Its not when the economic system developed
Debatable. Physiocrats were also "liberals" economically. France's first abolition of inner trade barriers, corporations was under the physiocrat Turgot. Not to mention a "free-trade" treaty with England sometime later.
Still, doesn't matter, you're moving the goalposts here. You can't just go correct someone on what liberalism is "supposed to be" and just ignore historical precedent.
>even though America was built explicitly on the idea of liberal economics as its main axiom
What? Even as a non-american I can find obvious counterexamples to this claim: federalist ideology, inner trade barriers, tariffs etc.
>The concept of free trade didn't exist before Frenchmen in the 1800s said the word liberal out loud. Cool story bro
Oh come on, you play the role of the common sense guy when you tried to criticize an anon for using a contemporary definition instead of one that has no historical basis.