• banneryear1868@lemmy.world
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    Those are all very liberal-minded interests and there’s nothing really wrong with them. The left largely agrees as well but would go further to the structural causes for why these issues are important, questioning the very economic and material arrangements for which these issues are contingent on. IE why does our economic system require people to be poor? What are the class dynamics behind these issues etc.

    Liberalism is the ideology of free markets and individual freedom, but those mechanisms are contingent on exploitation.

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      why does our economic system require people to be poor

      Let me guess, you’re from US. Or from Canada, and are stuck in US narrative.

      Your economic system (or rather society) has never ditched slavery, which is nowadays masquerading as a penal system. Poor people are easy to enslave.

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        I think you’re missing how I’m rhetorically posing that question to the preceding comment and not sincerely wondering myself…