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Anonymous Sat Aug 29 22:23:52 2020 No.16246417 [Reply] [Original]

What are some authors that were considered liberal for their day but would be generalized as "right-wing" nowadays?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 29 22:26:42 2020 No.16246427 File: 336 KB, 554x555, taolin.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16246417 Tao Lin

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 29 22:48:59 2020 No.16246515 Bertrand Russell

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 29 22:51:59 2020 No.16246532 File: 78 KB, 672x800, EdmundBurke1771.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Literally Edmund Burke. He was a Whig, the "left-wing" party of Enlightenment-era Britain. Yet today he's considered the founder of modern conservatism.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 29 22:58:01 2020 No.16246571 >>16246515 this. Russell was seriously one of the most based men in history though

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 29 23:10:45 2020 No.16246646 >>16246571 >misunderstood Aquinas >misunderstood Nietzsche >got BTFO by his own student, Wittgenstein Russell fucking sucks.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 29 23:16:24 2020 No.16246680 >>16246417 locke lol

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 29 23:21:12 2020 No.16246706 >>16246417 anyone who wrote t-10 years ago

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 29 23:22:41 2020 No.16246711 literally all of them who died before 60 years ago from current year

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 29 23:23:49 2020 No.16246717 >>16246417 Better question: Find a liberal thinker prior to the 20th century who wouldn't be considered right wing today

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 29 23:24:23 2020 No.16246721 File: 2.55 MB, 1693x2000, mary-karr-temptress.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16246417 Mary Karr

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 30 03:36:53 2020 No.16248015 >>16246417 Socrates Adolf Hitler

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 30 03:39:47 2020 No.16248031 >>16246721 >A fellow footfag on /lit/ Pleasure to meet you, my dear anon

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 30 03:40:50 2020 No.16248035 >>16246515 >>16246571 >delights in getting bona fide cucked by an american man BASED

Anonymous Sun Aug 30 03:49:50 2020 No.16248063
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>>16246417
h g wells probably. noted for being a freethinker, radical socialist etc in his day but some of his work is now perceived as racist
even though it isn't really. he suffers from the same problem as joseph conrad, people who are perpetually offended can't recognise satire

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 30 04:06:54 2020 No.16248098 >>16246680 correct answer

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 30 08:08:11 2020 No.16248854 >liberal = leftist Americans were a mistake

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 30 08:10:41 2020 No.16248865 >>16246571 russel is a cuck

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 30 08:11:32 2020 No.16248871 Hume, Kant, Locke, The Founding Fathers

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 30 08:12:25 2020 No.16248875 >>16246717 Plato, in some respects

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 30 08:20:44 2020 No.16248912 >>16246417 Nietzsche

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