• Akagigahara@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Lindner, and the FDP general, are more libertarian than liberal. This is expressed pretty nicely by ideas like this and his famous “Der Markt regelt das”.

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      2 months ago

      ‘Liberal’ has a different usage in many countries that has more implications of ‘free market liberal’.

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      2 months ago

      I didn’t know about the distinction between the two. After a 1-minute Wikipedia read I think you’re right.