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UK
/lˈɪbəɹəlˌɪzəm/
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[ US /ˈɫɪˌbɝəˌɫɪzəm/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɪˌbɝəˌɫɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- an economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market
- a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution
How To Use liberalism In A Sentence
- She was expelled from the party for opposing neo-liberalism and is one of the founders of a new socialist party in her country.
- The third section shifts from liberalism to socialism, and from a study of the rise of Ultramontanism to that of Ultramontanism in practice.
- But in furnishing its imaginary, cultural platform for the revival of liberal politics in America, The West Wing has also slipped into an uncritical cult of personality — much as the adoration of Bill Clinton has in the real-life house of liberalism. The Feel Good Presidency
- Willis also skips over the secular and leftist politics that led Catholic ethnics and working-class voters to take their distance from liberalism and the Democratic Party in 1972.
- Since the trauma of 1929, few people contest this need, although it flatly contradicts the tradition of economic liberalism.
- Only one paragraph before he tells us this, he claims that Orwell had lapsed from socialism into an apolitical brand of liberalism.
- All international liberalism has fostered is another form of the “white Raj.” Matthew Yglesias » Shocking
- Beyond this pathos concerning the relation of political and theological liberalism, we encounter another paradox. The Times Literary Supplement
- In the 19th century, the church denounced this secularisation of moral values as the perversity of liberalism, which it condemned and against which it fought.
- Most of those who were connected with the cause of economic liberalism, within or outside the party, addressed the group at one time or another. Thinking the Unthinkable