Talk:Classical liberalism

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Liberal Party of Canada listed as an example of Classical Liberalism

Absolutely and laughably false to even link these two together. The LPC is anything BUT classically liberal. From supply chain management, to recent bills governing online content including speech, to freezing bank accounts, it boggles the mind why someone could possibly link these two together. A classical Liberal would immediately criticize LPC economics as being bloated and wasteful and have a field day picking apart every other LPC tentacle managing Canadians' lives. Even the CPC is guilty of the same problem, being a proponent of supply chain management. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2025-35267-29 (talk) 22:50, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

mixing of time periods

Article inappropriately mixes time periods -- clearly Adam Smith and Hobbes were not thinking about political developments a few centuries later in the welfare state.

And in fact the whole article is a glorious mess, mixing topics that really have little connection to each other, freely jumping across centuries and continents. Maybe it needs to focus better on the historical origins of the classical liberal doctrine as a economic and philosophic system, and then let all the later stuff be integrated into other topics.

I'm pretty sure an old-fashion print encyclopedia does a better job.

Kaplanovitchskyite (talk) 04:44, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sofixit TFD (talk) 17:51, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

John Locke's definition of property

I would like to point out that the definition of property given to Locke is a little restrictive given what he says elsewhere in the Second Treatise, especially section 123:

"This makes him willing to quit a condition, which, however free, is full of fears and continual dangers: and it is not without reason, that he seeks out, and is willing to join in society with others, who are already united, or have a mind to unite, for the mutual preservation of their lives, liberties and estates, which I call by the general name, property."

Ideally another source can be found to show this, as simply quoting this may be considered original research? Rho9998 (talk) 10:42, 14 March 2026 (UTC)