Editing Liberal Socialism (section)

==[[File:Historian.png]] History==
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===Influenced by===
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====Foreign Influence====
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===Proto-===
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===Creation/Origin===
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===General History 1===
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===General History 2===
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===Peak===
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===Downfall===
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===Modern===
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===Influenced===
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===Examples===
====IRL Examples====
=====[[File:Cball-Germany.png]] Germany=====
<blockquote>''Main article: [[File:Bernst.png]] [[Reformist Marxism|Bernsteinism]]''</blockquote>
In Germany, liberal socialist ideals can be said to originate with the development of revisionist Marxism of Eduard Bernstein who defined the term 'socialism' as ''''Organized Liberalism'''<nowiki/>'.
=====[[File:Cball-UK.png]] United Kingdom=====
In Great Britain, the development of Liberal Socialism can be traced back to a number of sources of liberal and socialist origin. Liberal Socialism of liberal origin can be found in the theories of the political economist John Stuart Mill, who greatly influenced the political ideology of [[File:Soclib.png]] [[Social Liberalism|Social Liberalism]] which is a type of liberalism that believes that economic freedom can be only achieved through an extensive social state. Although, Mill is noted as going a step further, favoring collectivized workplaces. He theorized that [[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism|capitalist]] societies shall experience a [[File:Left Reformism.png]] [[Reformism#Left-Reformism|gradual process of socialization]] with worker cooperatives slowly replacing private enterprises.

John Mill's liberal socialism did not completely abolish capitalism and replace it with socialism, but it supported a mixed economy based on market socialism, including social ownership of private property and capital. Liberal socialists generally do not support centralism or socialism in the form of the state, but support the realization of property collectivization through market socialism of individual workers' cooperatives. This form of workers' community cooperatives can be seen as a manifestation of Liberalism: everyone can join according to their own free will, but if it is not conducive to their own self-development, individuals can leave at any time. Liberal socialists believe that the introduction of collective property eliminates the dependence on workers and employers, thus bringing real freedom to workers.
English liberal socialists believe that freedom and equality are mutually compatible and interdependent, and regard the material inequality produced by capitalism as one of the main reasons for the increasingly lack of freedom. Free socialists also generally support the free market, and believe that market monopoly is the inevitable result of capitalism, and only through market socialism can the real free market be achieved.

Liberal socialism of socialist origin in Britain can be found in the theories of the [[File:Christsoc.png]] [[Christian Socialism|Christian Socialist]] historian and activist Richard Henry Tawney, who developed a theory of ''''Ethical Socialism'''<nowiki/>'. Ethical socialism as a movement saw to justify socialism on ethical and moral grounds, as opposed to material grounds.

Tawney later joined, influenced, and became an executive of the socialist think tank of the ''Fabian Society'' which was a group that wanted to achieve [[File:Soc-h.png]] [[Socialism]] through [[File:Reform.png]] [[Reformism|reformist]] means in [[File:Dem.png]] [[Democracy|democracies]] ([[File:Demsocstar.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|Democratic Socialism]].) The ideology of the Fabian Society ('''Fabianism''') may, in turn, be characterized as a form of liberal socialism.

The term 'Liberal Socialism' was later used by the British economist [[File:Keynes.png]][[Keynesian School|John Maynard Keynes]] to describe his political ideology:<ref>[https://b-ok.cc/book/5326072/9298be ''"Keynes Against Capitalism: His Economic Case for Liberal Socialism"''] by James Crotty.</ref>

{{Quote|quote=The question is whether we are prepared to move out of the [[File:Clib.png]] [[Classical Liberalism|nineteen-century laissez-faire]] state into an era of liberal socialism, by which I mean a system where we can act as an organized community for common purposes and to promote economic and social justice, whilst respecting and protecting the individual – his freedom of choice, his faith, his mind and its expression, his enterprise, and his property.|speaker=[[File:Keynes.png]] [[Keynesian School|John Maynard Keynes]]|source=Collected Writings, volume 2, page 500}}The British novelist George Orwell, known for works like ''Animal Farm'' and ''1984,'' was a proponent of liberal socialism. According to Orwell, every work of literature of his after 1936 written "directly or indirectly ''against'' totalitarianism and ''for'' democratic socialism" as he understood it. More radical socialists have criticized Orwell for his conservative leanings such as his homophobic and antisemitic views, as well as his collaboration for the British government in writing lists of authors who were notably sympathetic to the Soviet Union.
=====[[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Italy=====
The term 'Liberal Socialism' was popularized by the Jewish-Italian political leader Carlo Rosselli who was influenced both by Eduard Bernstein and by the British Labor movement. Carlo Rosselli rejected the political theories of [[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism|Marx]] and favored [[File:NonMarxSoc.png]] [[Utopian Socialism|non-Marxist socialism]]. He believed that [[File:Liberal Democracy.png]] [[Liberalism|liberal democracy]] is not just important for socialist construction, but also for its realization. Additionally, Carlo Rosseli founded Justice and Liberty (Italian: ''Giustizia e Libertà'') which was a resistance movement against the [[File:Fash.png]] [[Fascism|Fascist]] government of Italy.

Strangely enough, the founder of Fascism [[File:Gentile.png]] [[Fascism|Giovanni Gentile]] referred to himself as more liberal than [[File:Woodrow.png]] [[Bull Moose Progressivism|Wilson]] and socialist than [[File:Lenin.png]] [[Leninism|Lenin]]. Liberalism to him meant a liberty that universalized itself beyond one's personal bubble. And his socialism came from his study of [[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]] and his admiration for the ideals of the [[File:Leftnat.png]] [[Left-Wing Nationalism|Risorgimento]].
=====[[File:Cball-US.png]] United States=====
In the United States, the term 'Liberal Socialism' was used by the political theorist John Rawls to describe his political ideology.

In the United States a type of Liberal Socialism was espoused by the [[File:AnSynd.png]] [[Anarcho-Syndicalism|anarcho-syndicalist]] thinker Noam Chomsky. In his book ''On Anarchism'' claiming that [[File:Libsoc.png]] [[Libertarian Socialism|libertarian socialism]] to be conclusion of [[File:Clib.png]] [[Classical Liberalism|classical liberal]] principles:<ref>[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/noam-chomsky-on-anarchism ''"On Anarchism"''], p. 14. Noam Chomsky.</ref>

{{Quote|quote=These ideas grow out of the [[File:Enlightenment.png]] [[Enlightenment Thought]]; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Humboldt’s Limits of State Action, Kant’s insistence, in his defense of the [[File:Jacobin.png]] [[Jacobinism|French Revolution]], that freedom is the precondition for acquiring the maturity for freedom, not a gift to be granted when such maturity is achieved. With the development of [[File:Indust.png]] [[Industrialism|industrial]] [[File:Cap.png]] [[capitalism]], a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is [[File:Libsoc.png]] [[Libertarian Socialism|libertarian socialism]] that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the [[File:Clib.png]] [[Classical Liberalism|classical liberal]] ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. In fact, on the very same assumptions that led classical liberalism to oppose the intervention of the state in social life, capitalist social relations are also intolerable. This is clear, for example, from the classic work of Humboldt, The Limits of State Action, which anticipated and perhaps inspired Mill and to which we return below. This classic of liberal thought, completed in 1792, is in its essence profoundly, though prematurely, anticapitalist. Its ideas must be attenuated beyond recognition to be transmuted into an ideology of industrial capitalism.

Humboldt’s vision of a society in which social fetters are replaced by social bonds and labor is freely undertaken suggests the early [[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism|Marx]], with his discussion of the “alienation of labor when work is external to the worker ... not part of his nature ... [so that] he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself ... [and is] physically exhausted and mentally debased,” alienated labor that “casts some of the workers back into a barbarous kind of work and turns others into machines,” thus depriving man of his “species character” of “free conscious activity” and “productive life.” Similarly, Marx conceives of “a new type of human being who needs his fellow-men.... [The workers’ association becomes] the real constructive effort to create the social texture of future human relations.” It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association. On the same assumptions, capitalist relations of production, wage labor, competitiveness, the ideology of “possessive individualism”—all must be regarded as fundamentally antihuman. Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

Rudolf Rocker describes modern anarchism as “the confluence of the two great currents which during and since the French revolution have found such characteristic expression in the intellectual life of Europe: Socialism and Liberalism.” The classical liberal ideals, he argues, were wrecked on the realities of capitalist economic forms. Anarchism is necessarily anti-capitalist in that it “opposes the exploitation of man by man.” But anarchism also opposes “the dominion of man over man.” It insists that “socialism will be free or it will not be at all. In its recognition of this lies the genuine and profound justification for the existence of anarchism.” From this point of view, anarchism may be regarded as the libertarian wing of socialism. It is in this spirit that Daniel Guérin has approached the study of anarchism in Anarchism and other works.|source=[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/noam-chomsky-on-anarchism On Anarchism]|speaker=Noam Chomsky}}

A similar view has been espoused by the American BreadTuber ''VaushV.''<ref>[https://twitter.com/maytoads/status/1290343782450434049 "Vaush on Marx and following theorists"], @MayToads, Twitter.com</ref> Leading to liberal socialism to be sarcastically called '''Vaushism''' within the Polcompball community. 

{{Quote|quote=When Marx and following theorists wrote on capitalism they weren't writing 'capitalism and liberalism are worst things to ever happen to humanity, they are the greatest oppression of workers'. No. Marxism is supposed to be an extension of liberalism not a rejection of it, a true promotion of unity, fraternity, and freedom, and liberty, and shit. That's what Marxism and that's what leftism is about, it's about bringing the messaging of the liberal movement forward, to make it better, to make it get stronger, to make it true to its principles.|speaker=[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1E-JS8L0j1Ei70D9VEFrPQ Vaush]}}
=====[[File:Cball-Brazil.png]] Brazil=====
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=====[[File:Cball-USSR.png]] Soviet Union/Russia [[File:Cball-Russia.png]]=====
Mikhail Gorbachev was the last general secretary of the USSR who oversaw the demise of the Soviet Empire. Gorbachev was a compromised general secretary who rose to power when the USSR was on the brink of collapse, already suffering economic stagnation, supply shortages, sing the mounting costs of Brezhnev’s Afghan war. In his tenure, he implemented a series of reforms, including perestroika, glasnost, new political thinking, withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the abandonment of the Brezhnev Doctrine. Much of his political career was spent trying to balance the needs of various inner-factions between hardliners, moderate/reformist communists, and nationalists. Out of desperation, and from a sheer lack of efficiency from the state-planned model, he made an attempt to reform the country that drew from the experiences of market socialist economies such as the [[File:Tito.png]] [[Titoism|SFRY]], [[File:Goulash.png]] Hungary, and [[File:Dengf.png]] [[Dengism|China]], despite his desperate attempt to re-form the soviet system, because of various complicated factors, his efforts to radically restructure the soviet system failed miserably to prevent a complete collapse of the Soviet Union.

The pullout of troops from Afghanistan and Eastern Europe was also mishandled. This led to the collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the Revolutions of 1989, along with the Islamist takeover of Afghanistan. In 1991, the Soviet hardliners who opposed his reforms saw his proposal to change the USSR into a confederation as undesirable and “treason.” They launched the infamous “August Coup,” which tried to restore the Soviet Empire, which effectively made Gorbachev powerless since then. This gave the rise of [[File:Yeltsin.png]] [[Authoritarian Capitalism|Boris Yeltsin]], who subsequently declared the end of the USSR, along with other separatist nationalist leaders.
====Fictional Examples====
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===Comparisons===
====[[File:EvolutionarySoc.png]] [[Reformist Marxism|Evolutionary Socialism]]====
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====[[File:Keynes.png]] [[Keynesian School]]====
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====[[File:Dsa.png]] [[Democratic Socialism]]====
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====[[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy]]====
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====[[File:Soclib.png]] [[Social Liberalism]]====
====[[File:Antitrump.png]] No-King Protests====
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===Intellectuals===
====[[File:ItalianResistance.png]] Carlo Rosselli====
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====[[File:Bernstein.png]] Eduard Bernstein====
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====[[File:Mill.png]] John Stuart Mill====
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====[[File:BertrandRussel.png]] Bertrand Russell====
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====Intellectual etc.====
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