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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Liber(al), liber(tarian)

Comes from the French Laissez-faire which as a core belief was that landowners should be taxed not workers. Though literally means let (people) be

The opposite is authoritarian which is what OP thinks leftism is