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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 05 March 2013 03:01:43PM 1 point [-]

Just to make sure: In your model, the laissez-faire guys are classified as a part of "Progressivism/Liberalism"? Or are they just statistically too insignificant to be included in any major political force?

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 05 March 2013 03:47:13PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, I meant Liberalism both in the sense it's used in America and in the sense of the classical laissez-faire liberalism. There are disagreements between social democrats and the libertarianian-minded, but they've not yet gone to war against each other as the other groupings have, and instead allied against both other groups I mentioned.

So even if one considers them different movements, they've been in steady alliance or at least friendly rivalry for the period in European history that I was considering, and I think can be treated as a single movement. I could also probably use the Moldbuggian "Universalist" term to put them together...