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I do think liberalism carries the blame for being an opiate of the people more powerful and more closely bonded with capitalism than religion ever was. The focus on individual worth and individual freedom has made people way more amicable to being pitted against each other in a capitalist race to the bottom than even 19th/early 20th century conservatism.
Also local capitalism is awful too. Even just one town can have landlords and serfs, merchants and beggars, guildmasters and abused interns.
Capitalism favors the individual to self isolate inorder to only pursue monetary value.
Yes, and liberalism helps justify that by focusing so heavily on individualist worth and wellbeing. Hence "opiate of the people".