classical liberalism
English
Etymology
A retronym to distinguish earlier 19th-century liberalism from social liberalism.
Noun
classical liberalism (uncountable)
- (politics) A political ideology and a branch of liberalism that advocates civil liberties under the rule of law with an emphasis on economic freedom.
- Coordinate terms: economic liberalism, social liberalism
- 1990, E. K. Hunt, Property and Prophets, 6th edition, New York: Harper & Row, →ISBN, OCLC 20295502:
- It was during this period of industrialization that the individualistic world view of classical liberalism became the dominant ideology of capitalism.
Derived terms
- classical liberal
Further reading
- classical liberalism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia