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Does "extreme" just mean "not liberal"?

What would liberal extremism even look like?

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Carl Beijer
Jul 13, 2024
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Look at how “extreme” is used in the discourse and you’ll inevitably find it describing one of two things:

  1. Any ideology that does not conform to 21st century liberalism. But in this case the adjective is almost always completely redundant; talking about “extremist communism” is in this sense exactly like talking about “illiberal communism.” Using extreme…

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