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Some are, some are not.
There are anticapitalist liberals...?
Liberal in modern western political discourse has little to do with capitalism anymore and more about your stance on social issues like LGBT rights, racial equality or healthcare. Half of lemmy pretends not to understand it for some reason but it's been like that for a few decades.
It's the result of conservatives using "libtard" and "communist" interchangeably for everyone to the left of Reagan while by the old definition they're actually liberals.
Languages evolve. Prescriptivism is useless.
American centric much.