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>Or am I misunderstanding it?
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>I was thinking of it more in the classic economic sense of a liberal economic system vs. a closed economic system (whether to the "right" of such a system as in the case of national socialism or to the "left" as in the case of communism). In other words, a liberal system in its early 20th century meaning, that of an expanding economic system, intent on knocking down barriers, particularly trade barriers.

Got it.