this might sound dumb, but I just realized liberalism is a bourgeois ideology

in the sense that liberalism does not and is not meant to apply to all people of a nation, but only the (potentially colonial) bourgeoisie. when amerika is discussed as the land of the free and possesses democracy as a value, it is not that these are absent: they are present, but only for the ruling class. just, none for anyone else. via /r/communism https://ift.tt/2ZGQbvD