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[DavidMS]

They are a bunch of bomb-throwing anarchists, but at least they aren't religious fundamentalists...

Taditional Liberals (1848ers, etc) were for free trade. Democratic Underground's membership is not primarialy composed of traditional liberals. I get the feeling that most of us are conservative social democrats and many of us would favor a social market economy. I have also noticed a large social-anarchist streak. Favoring getting the church out of marrage (or our goverment out of the marage bussness), the bedroom (informed concent), and the school.

There was a major traditional liberal / social democrat schism in the late 19th centry which mostly had to do with the negative externalities (exploitation of workers) of a market economy.