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Subject:	Re: Political use of the word "liberals"
From:	michael perelman <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Societies for the History of Economics <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:48:00 -0700
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Franklin Roosevelt renamed liberal to mean progressive as opposed to
the European form of liberalism.

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Leonidas Montes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I was reading a book by Stedman Jones ("Masters of the Universe") and somewhere he mentions that the word liberal acquired a political connotation (Republican versus Liberals) in the early 20th century. After reading Scgumpeter and Hayek on this issue,  I had the impression that this conflation emerged during the second world war.
>
> Does anyone know when and how it actually happened?
>
> Leonidas Montes



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