"The problem of identifying liberalism is both linguistic and historical. The term liberal was used up until about a hundred years ago to describe the world-view of the Founders and other chief Enlightenment figures committed to Liberty like John Locke. It is, in brief, a spirited defense of Life, Liberty and Property and an opposition to an all-encompassing state. As socialists and Marxists strove to be taken more seriously, they fell upon the strategy of re-branding their movement. Banished were references to collectivism and other totalitarian theories, and in the place of these leftists began to refer to themselves as “Liberals.”"
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