Single Idea 23128

[catalogued under 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / a. Liberalism basics]

Full Idea

The opposite of liberalism is not conservatism but dogmatism.

Gist of Idea

The opposite of liberalism is dogmatism

Source

Adam Gopnik (A Thousand Small Sanities [2019], 1)

Book Reference

Gopnik,Adam: 'A Thousand Small Sanities' [riverrun 2019], p.81


A Reaction

Nice. It pinpoints the liberal opposition to both extremes of normal politics. It might make anarchists their allies, though!

Related Idea

Idea 23135 Classic Marxists see liberalism as the ideology of the bourgeoisie [Gopnik]