Why I am not a liberal

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4. It must also (and finally for now) be recognised that liberalism is, above all, an individualist ideology and individualism is ultimately opposed to collectivism**. This may seem like an obvious point, but it's one that seems to be increasingly forgotten by much of the intellectual Left these days.

Please explain. Most of the intellectual Left support more social freedom (i.e. read/watch what you want, make your own decisions about sex and relationships, etc.) than most on the right do.

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4. It must also (and finally for now) be recognised that liberalism is, above all, an individualist ideology and individualism is ultimately opposed to collectivism**. This may seem like an obvious point, but it's one that seems to be increasingly forgotten by much of the intellectual Left these days.

Please explain. Most of the intellectual Left support more social freedom (i.e. read/watch what you want, make your own decisions about sex and relationships, etc.) than most on the right do.

Of course they do. Not quite sure what that has to do with my point though.

I was questioning your assumption that the intellectual left is anti-individualism.