>>12616618he's saying that the classical conservatives were monarchists. conservatives since the latter half of the 19th century, especially in america, have been economic liberals: free trade, invisible hand of the market, distrust of government and government debt, etc. where op goes wrong is in equivocating contemporary left-liberals with economic leftists. gang of four are marxist, and so not economically liberal but economically left wing. it's an equivocation that rightoids always fall into, partly out of ignorance, partly because it plays to their rhetorical strength.
