/lit/ - Literature

>>20870214
This is literally me....

I read excerpts to my wife and she loves every single one, she's so pretty when she's silently listening.
I have never made a profit but she makes it all worth it.

>>20297337
I mean I guess the more correct way of putting it is that I have so little confidence in myself that I kind of just don't care about it anymore, and just say what I want.

There is not really any connection, What being Liberal back then meant a completely different thing than what it means now(Americans especially are too retarded when it comes to the semantics of political theory so just avoid them).
I have never heard anyone with a brain claim that pre-Hegel philosophers are leftists though, Hegel I get because there was an uncertainty back then which caused a real split between right and young hegelians.
But in conclusion, no, he wasn't a leftist, you correctly assess why and I think assigning these labels is foolish in the first place(the pharaohs and Kings of antiquity adored money and gold but it's foolish to call them capitalists).