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Re:Why Are the Highly Educated So Liberal? by ionised on Friday June 03, 2016 @07:53AM (#11829751)
I've always used 'liberal' in the socially liberal sense (I'm from the UK).

Here we tend to use 'neo-liberal' to describe the laissez-faire attitude towards economics.

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Re:Why Are the Highly Educated So Liberal? by eivarv on Friday June 03, 2016 @08:24AM (#11829868)
If so, the UK is different from mainland Europe in this regard.

I do find it peculiar, though, that "neo-liberalism" is of a different form than "liberalism", and hence not really "new liberalism":P

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Re:Why Are the Highly Educated So Liberal? by tehwalrus on Friday June 03, 2016 @08:29AM (#11829901)
If anything, it's very old Liberalism.

Way back when, (Whigs and Tories era), the "Liberals" we're the ones arguing for free markets as opposed to Feudalism. This is where attachment of the word "Liberal" to free market-ists originates, I think.

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