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Originally Posted by peter12
...Well, let's not forget that political regimes can fail. Marxist-Leninism being the most recent. Old Castro is on record now as saying that Cuban Communism wasn't the best thing in the world. What makes liberal progressivism immune?
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Perhaps I am idealistic for thinking as much, but I am optimistic about the survival and improvement of liberalism on the basis that it is not oppressive in the same sense as communism, which persisted largely through suppression. Granted, the divide that exists between the third/first world can be construed as a new kind of oppression, but the freedom we enjoy through which we can critique the existing structures provides hope for the prospect of non-reactionary change. Does that make any sense?