In political terms, there are many words, the values of which many are not fully understood.This is associated with frequent change of a regime, bringing new ruler treats all their own way, and with many historical facts.In this article we will try to find out what is liberalism, what are its representatives and what ideology they adhere to.
So liberal - it is primarily svobodnomyslyaschih people freethinker.It is believed that the true liberals are endowed with excessive indulgence, they routinely turn a blind eye to the many conflicting facts, unacceptable even for their own aspects.First of all, liberalism is a political trend, which implies freedom of speech, actions of every individual in the economy and other spheres of life.
Liberals in government
In the period from the 16th to the 18th century in Europe, was born under the name of liberalism within.Its essence is that the representatives of the bourgeoisie began to demand the abolition of absolute power, which provides the Catholic Church, in return was to come full freedom of action for every citizen.First of all this freedom relates to the field of economy and trade.The ability to freely conduct their work, to express their own opinions about everything - that's the ideal model of the state, sought by every liberal.This, however, was the ideology of a bourgeois stratum of society that has not received adequate support from the ordinary people of Europe.
There were some years when liberalism became a major policy directions in many states.The heyday of this movement was the period of the French Revolution.Then every liberal - it was representative of a wealthy family - lacked only in freedom, which is limited to the spiritual absolute.Despite the fact that such figures as J. M. Lafayette, O. Mirabeau, and the Girondins and Feuillant received at some time in their hands the state apparatus, they also own slogans about freedom turned into something anti-democratic.A representative of the bourgeois kind of "pulled the blanket over himself," only solving their own problems and their own needs quenching.
liberals in Russia
Representatives of the French liberalism proved to be not at its best, but their documents, slogans and claims the right to a better life, and remained in the memory of the people, and on paper.It is these sources have become the main impetus for the emergence of free-thinkers in the Russian Empire.Of course, everyone knows that the Russian liberal - a Decembrist and every one of their supporters.In 1825 they performed at the Senate Square to overthrow the Emperor.We can not say in what could turn our state if the masses of the people supported them, but that did not happen, and many of the rebels were executed.
In Soviet times, the Bolshevik Party led an active struggle against all manifestations of liberalism and freedom of speech in society.We all know that the Soviet Union was not a merchant or private companies or free trade.People could not even leave the borders of his native state, to see the world.
