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How and to what extent, have modern liberals departed from the ideas of classical liberalism? Like every ideology that is developed there are similarities and differences between the original and the modern ideology. Modern liberalism is no exception, it did have some links back to classical liberalism but it had to change due to the Industrial changes in the 19th/20th Century. Therefore to a large extent modern liberals did depart from classical liberalism and in a number of different ways. Classical liberalism was the earliest liberal tradition, classical liberal ideas have taken a variety of forms but they have a number of common characteristics. These characteristics take the forms of egoistical individualism, negative freedom and the state is regarded as a 'necessary evil'. Egoistical individualism means that you view human beings as rationally self interested creatures. This means that individuals in society are self sufficient, this leads on to the classical liberals...

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