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what exactly does "liberal" mean to you? what makes some socialist a "lib" as opposed to a pureblooded leftist hero?
There is no such thing as a "socialist" liberal because there is no such thing as an anti-capitalist liberal - once you cross over into anti-capitalist - ie, socialist - territory, you automatically become anti-liberal, too.
Again, your goal seems to be tracing a very small territory which will obviously be rejected by most... It's as if that's your aim is to be more radical and exclusive "than thou".
To me this is no different to the billionaire bragging about his particularly libertarian agenda, or extremists Randian "egoic motivations".
Its aim is to perform and adopt an assigned cultural position in order to reproduce the dominant cultural hegemony; positioning and imparting the awareness of the majority population's moral imperative to avoid both positions as ugly and extremist, and hence their righteousness for staying away from both.
Then let them reject it.
Elitist.
Throughout your comments there are quite a few people who are blatantly socialist, and people who say very anti-capitalist things that may be socialists, who you have called a lib. It just seems you perceive it as an insult towards people who hold different beliefs, rather than describing capitalists... not to say that the specific OP here isn't a capitalist, but some of the others definitely aren't.
I wouldn't count myself as a capitalist, personally. I may be more amiable to short-term solutions that acknowledge that we are still in a capitalist society, but I see an investor-driven economy as ruinous to both itself and democracy, and not something that can be sustained in a truly democratic society.