[exmarine]

Anglo Liberalism was the "classic" Lasseiz-faire variety and bears ZERO resemblance to liberalism of today. That form of liberalism stated that "that government that governs best governs least"

[CodeMonkey]

Why do you even bother to call modern leftist thought "liberalism?" There is nothing liberal about it. It is even less liberal than most modern "conservatives" who are in reality more fascistic than they are modern ideological descendants of Locke and our founders. One of the best articles IMO on FR in a long time was one lamenting how conservatism today is more about views on morality and religion than economics, individual rights, a commitment to a traditional, non-interventionist foreign policy and all that jazz.