Great Caesar of Selucia, It is an honor to make your acquaintance.
Perhaps I undermined my own message with the words I chose. Allow me to restate, in light of Caesar's response.
My use of the word Liberal, in scare quotes, as they say, suggests that Kalistan is suspicious of countries who use liberalism as a bat. Kalistan is governed by the principle of liberty: Ethical Socialism is inherently liberal in its orientation. If Caesar has not done so, we would invite her to read the works of our Party's ideological founder, Edward Bennots. You can see a brief summary here:
https://particracy.wikia.com/wiki/Ethical_SocialismThere you will see a strong commitment to individual liberties. You may also look at the Socialist Party of Kalistan's libertarian credentials, which demonstrate that we believe that the fewer restrictions placed on individual lives, the freer they are and the fewer criminals our society produces.
On the other hand, neo-liberal ideals of free markets, limited government (especially limited involvement in economic activity, though max restriction in individual rights like freedom from excessive police presence, freedom from max restrictions on the human body, and max restriction on popular dissent against the Government) and so called "liberationist" movements which are really just imperialism, seem to be all people mean by "liberalism" today. We do not see a strong committment to peace and individual liberty in the world: If a rightist libertarian claims to support liberty, they mean the liberty to be eaten by capitalism, and that's it. See, for example, the so-called
libertarian Party that is rising right now in our friend Sekowo, calling themselves Revival. Their first public statement is to blast cultural pluralism and the "tyranny" of socialism. Individuals are not to make up their own mind: No, dissent of their ideology is prima facie called "tyranny".
Standing opposed to rightist libertarianism is the so-called "liberalism" of the center left, which claims to support liberty, but frames liberal ideas in the form of greater access to markets and the government for minority populations. There is no calls to eliminate the hierarchcal nature of society and establish true equality which would eliminate the need to "work" to eliminate barriers. No, left liberals treat the symptoms while the patient slowly drowns in their own blood, while refusing to address the knife in the throat of the patient. They look at the world and say, "There is nothing we can do about the destruction that capitalism is doing, so we may as well give people a bandaid."
The real advocate of human rights, Forgive me, Madam, is the person who works for liberation FROM the monster of capitalism. Excuse me: the one that works to eliminate need. We have done this in Kalistan: The entire society looks to need, so that people are free from need and may pursue wants. It is need, hunger, and lack of access to basic services, because liberals see people who are on their own as freer than those who rely on society for help, which is what is the greatest violation of human rights. Poverty due to misallocated resources at home: Forcing poor people to accept charity so that those who have more than they need can keep all of it as well as much of their neighbor's as well. It is the taking of seconds before everyone has had firsts, that is the biggest human rights violation that is committed in the world today: bigger than a million nuclear bombs. And it is the liberals who allow need to continue to exist, because their focus is on getting more consumers into the market, both of capitalism and of politics.
If we are suspicious of liberalism in Terra today, it is not because we do not look to human rights. We are supremely committed to the advancement of humanity, and the alleviation of human suffering. We are committed to solving the problem which causes suffering. We are not convinced that liberals who look at symptoms instead care about human suffering at all. Instead, they sit around and tell themselves that they are the best, and anyone who opposes them are monsters. So they invade and conquer and kill, to force others to adopt their methods too. If it appears that we oppose liberalism, it is only because liberalism does not solve any of the problems: It merely makes a small segment of the people feel better about those problems. It means more brands, rather than better quality. More Parties, rather than quality candidates. It means freedom to, rather than freedom from.
If that makes us illiberal, perhaps the Caesar is correct then. But the position taken by the SP, and I hope this organization, which I would hope is not at all an alliance, but an association, that solving problems related to human need is the greatest commitment to humanity: more so than simply offering more aid to starving millions around the globe, without resolving the problems that cause them to starve in the first place.
We hope the Caesar does not judge us too harshly. There is more than one way to improve the lives of human beings. It is the liberals who insist that there is only one way, market capitalism, and charity when the markets fail people. We like to think we have a more vibrant imagination than that, and I ensure the Caesar, The Socialist Party of Kalistan will do all that the Caesar needs to assure her that this Organization is committed to the cause of human rights and the end of human suffering. This is the point of cooperation in the first place.