Liberalism has failed to achieve true equality. I believe that liberalism is a victim of its own economic and political history and systems. The idea of equality and liberalism has led to the inequalities of gender, race and class. Liberalism has ultimately produced inequality. Liberalism first became a distinct political movement during the Age of Enlightenment, when it became popular among philosophers and economists in the Western world. Liberalism rejected the notions, common at the time, of hereditary privilege, state religion. English philosopher John Locke is often credited with founding liberalism as a distinct philosophical tradition. Locke argued that each man has a natural right to life, liberty, and property, and according to the social contract, governments must not violate these rights. Liberals opposed traditional conservatism and sought to replace an unfair government with representative democracy and the rule of law. Liberalism is essentially a political viewpoint or ideology associated with strong support for a broad interpretation of civil liberties including: freedom of expression, religious toleration, and widespread popular participation in the political process, and for the repeal of protectionist legal restrictions inhibiting the operation of a capitalist free market economy. The term has come to describe an ideology with similar views on civil liberties and personal freedom issues but now supporting a much stronger role for government in regulating and manipulating the private economy and providing public support for the economically and socially disadvantaged. In its purest form, it is not for the collective to decide what is good for all under liberalism; on the contrary, it is up to the individual to decide what is best for themselves and for what they need. Liberalism has three distinct cores: the moral core, the political core and the economic core. It is the moral core, more than anything else, which keeps these biases alive and well. Can liberalism correct the class, racial and gender biases, or is it hopelessly a victim of its own economic and political history and systems that produces inequality? I believe that liberalism is a victim of its own economic and political history and systems and produces inequality. It produces inequality by providing what it considered equality for the common people. In its attempt to make everyone equal, it has created racial, gender and class based biases that exist because of liberalism and which liberalism itself can never hope to contain. It is a theory that has proven not to work in practical application. According to Contemporary Political Ideologies, written by Roy C. Macridis and Mark Hulliung, "we all believe in certain things . . . we all have prejudices, whether we know it or not . . . some become alienated - rejecting the society and its values, sulking into their separate and private tents but ready to spring forth into action" (Macridis & Hulling 1). These built in prejudices and biases would surf