Liberalism is european in origin, as Capitalism first truly took hold there. It isn't the "modern divide" but the notion of Liberalism as a progressive motion or regressive motion.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Capitalism was first instituted by the first Liberal nation- the USA. Europe was mostly mercantilist

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No, the mode of production creates the ideology, not the opposite.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And Europe was mired in mercantilist systems. The government gave business permission to exist in many cases.

America was the first to institute capitalism, Europeans cane up with the philosophy but America put it into practice.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Mercantilism is not distinct from Capitalism, but a form of it.