Most of the criticisms of EA may be more “leftist” than liberal. If you don’t know, “leftist” is a catch-all term for ‘left-of-liberal’ ideologies, i.e., ones thoroughly to the left of the mainstream of the Democratic Party, or even social democrats.
It’s no fault of EA to not understand the distinction well because leftists themselves are often barely able to distinguish if by “leftism” they mean some kind of socialism or something else, or where the dividing line is between liberalism and far-left ideologies.
Anyway, some of the more liberal movements, like ‘The Neoliberal Project,’ are among the few that are voluntary proponents of EA.
It’s no fault of EA to not understand the distinction well
I don’t know about EA, but I’m from another country with a different political map, so I’m trying to approximate US politics and don’t really dinstinguish between “liberals”, “progressives”, “leftists” etc.
In my country (Israel) we mostly think in terms of “left” and “right”, and economic liberalism is farily new.
Yeah, I’m from Canada, which is both similar and close enough to the USA for the country’s politics to be more understandable to us. There are others in EA from Europe who occasionally have some difficulty understanding the complexities of American politics too. Anyway, while it’s worth checking with some Americans in EA who might know better, my impression is that most of the criticisms of EA from the political left have been from those further left of mainstream Democrats in the United States (e.g., Clinton, Obama, Biden, etc.).
Most of the criticisms of EA may be more “leftist” than liberal. If you don’t know, “leftist” is a catch-all term for ‘left-of-liberal’ ideologies, i.e., ones thoroughly to the left of the mainstream of the Democratic Party, or even social democrats.
It’s no fault of EA to not understand the distinction well because leftists themselves are often barely able to distinguish if by “leftism” they mean some kind of socialism or something else, or where the dividing line is between liberalism and far-left ideologies.
Anyway, some of the more liberal movements, like ‘The Neoliberal Project,’ are among the few that are voluntary proponents of EA.
I don’t know about EA, but I’m from another country with a different political map, so I’m trying to approximate US politics and don’t really dinstinguish between “liberals”, “progressives”, “leftists” etc.
In my country (Israel) we mostly think in terms of “left” and “right”, and economic liberalism is farily new.
Yeah, I’m from Canada, which is both similar and close enough to the USA for the country’s politics to be more understandable to us. There are others in EA from Europe who occasionally have some difficulty understanding the complexities of American politics too. Anyway, while it’s worth checking with some Americans in EA who might know better, my impression is that most of the criticisms of EA from the political left have been from those further left of mainstream Democrats in the United States (e.g., Clinton, Obama, Biden, etc.).