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First time I've ever seen this community, I worry that accepting the moniker "neoliberal" which tankies use to mischaracterize the nature of liberalism and warp the definition of liberal, is perhaps not a good idea.
For the unaware, the top left image is the 1848 Berlin revolution/uprising which protested the then largely autocratic governments across the German Confederation. The top right post is Union Soldiers in the US Civil War. The bottom two are recent events.
This community is an unofficial spinoff of the r/neoliberal community on reddit, which itself was a spinoff of r/badeconomics. In the 2016 election cycle, everyone got mad at us for saying Bernie Sanders’ economic policies were not gonna work, and that we favored Hillary Clinton’s instead. This resulted in basically all of reddit calling us “neoliberal shills,” which led to us taking over the (then) empty, decrepit, and abandoned r/Neoliberal.
I would say very few in that sub actually run around and call themselves a neoliberal in real life. Truthfully, neoliberalism is not very well-defined, and its meaning varies so much depending on who you are talking to that it’s simply not a great label to use in real life. Indeed, some circles basically use it as a political slur lol.
That being said, it is true that many of us do like neoliberalism’s core tenets (at least for the definition that includes a large amount of freedom for markets, globalism, multilateralism, and low government interference in the economy). Given that lemmy is decidedly to the left of reddit, this community is even more niche here.