This is not a liberal, at least not in the sense of the word as I use it.
Communists are not liberals. They hate liberals.
Liberal by 'classic definition' no. Liberal by our now colloquial definition; yes. . .though calling him Liberal was a almost a quick kindness.
Communists are 'anti-democratic/anti-democracy/anti-individual/anti-freedom and by all our current definitions; the Liberal/socialist/communist, all share the same root as planted by Karl Marx. . and personalized by Lenin and Stalin. . .