Liberal Socialism

Not to be confused with Libertarian Socialism or Social Liberalism.

"Socialism must tend to become liberal, and liberalism to take on the substance of the proletarian struggle. It is not possible to be liberal without joining actively in the cause of the workers, and there is no way to serve the cause of labor efficiently without coming to grips with the philosophy of the modern world, a philosophy founded on the idea of development through oppositions eternally overcome; here lies the core of the liberal point of view."

File:ItalianResistance.png Carlo Rosselli

Liberal Socialism is an economically centre-left to left-wing political theory and ideology which holds that Socialism is compatible with Liberalism.

Generally, Liberal Socialism believes in a form of File:Left Reformism.png reformist File:EvolutionarySoc.png evolutionary socialism within the framework of File:Liberal Democracy.png liberal democracy through File:Synd.png unions, File:Marketsoc.png cooperatives, File:Statesoc.png targeted nationalization, and the expansion of welfare. This is reconciled with liberalism as an expansion of the democratic principle to the sphere of economics, and Liberal Socialism views socialism as an ideology fundamentally based in freedom. It rejects strict adherence to Marxism and instead bases its philosophy on File:Humanismpix.png humanism, File:Pragmat.png pragmatism, and File:Skepticism.png skepticism.

However, there is no one conception of what Liberal Socialism is, but rather, many different (sometimes contradictory) interpretations

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Modern

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Influenced

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Examples

IRL Examples

Germany

Main article: Bernsteinism

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'.

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 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 capitalist societies shall experience a File:Left Reformism.png 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 Christian Socialist historian and activist Richard Henry Tawney, who developed a theory of 'Ethical Socialism'. 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 Socialism through File:Reform.png reformist means in democracies ( 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.pngJohn Maynard Keynes to describe his political ideology:

The question is whether we are prepared to move out of the 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.

File:Keynes.png John Maynard Keynes, 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.

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 Marx and favored File:NonMarxSoc.png non-Marxist socialism. He believed that File:Liberal Democracy.png 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 Fascist government of Italy.

Strangely enough, the founder of Fascism File:Gentile.png Giovanni Gentile referred to himself as more liberal than File:Woodrow.png Wilson and socialist than File:Lenin.png Lenin. Liberalism to him meant a liberty that universalized itself beyond one's personal bubble. And his socialism came from his study of Marxism and his admiration for the ideals of the Risorgimento.

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 anarcho-syndicalist thinker Noam Chomsky. In his book On Anarchism claiming that libertarian socialism to be conclusion of classical liberal principles:

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 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 industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the 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 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.

Noam Chomsky, On Anarchism

A similar view has been espoused by the American BreadTuber VaushV. Leading to liberal socialism to be sarcastically called Vaushism within the Polcompball community.

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.

Vaush

File:Cball-Brazil.png Brazil

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File:Cball-USSR.png Soviet Union/Russia

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 SFRY, File:Goulash.png Hungary, and 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 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 Evolutionary Socialism

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File:Keynes.png Keynesian School

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File:Dsa.png Democratic Socialism

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Social Democracy

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No-King Protests

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Intellectuals

File:ItalianResistance.png Carlo Rosselli

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Eduard Bernstein

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File:Mill.png John Stuart Mill

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Bertrand Russell

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Intellectual etc.

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Conceptions

As Liberal Mixed Economy

Liberal Socialism can sometimes mean liberalism which operates through a robust mixed economy, without intentions of transferring to a fully socialist system. This often pans out as a slightly more left wing version of what is otherwise indistinguishable from Social Liberalism or Social Democracy.

File:Marketsoc.png As Socialist Liberal Democracy File:Liberal Democracy.png

Alternatively, Liberal Socialism can mean a File:Liberal Democracy.png Liberal Democracy that would have a File:Marketsoc.png Market Socialist economy, or a Democratic Socialist society that would have free markets, minimal regulations, and very few (if any) planning.

As Liberal/Socialist Reform

Another way of looking at liberal socialism is as an attempt to reform a liberal economy into a fully socialist one, or alternatively, as the liberalization of a centralized File:Statesoc.png State Socialist government.

As Historiography

Liberal Socialism can be seen as a view of history as going from File:Feud.png Feudalism to Liberalism, and then Finally to Socialism. This conception tends to view Socialism as the best way carry on the Classical Liberal principles of File:Equality.png Equality and File:LibFoundation.png Liberty.

File:MarxistHumanism.png Liberalism as Socialism

Liberal socialism can also be seen as using the Liberal philosophy that the liberty of man should not be offended and that a person should not be treated as means but as ends, extended to the economy, combined to prove socialist standpoints.

Variants

Internal conflicts in ideology

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Factions in Ideology

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Sub-Ideologies

Sub-Ideology 1

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Sub-Ideology 2

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Schools of Thought

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Authoritarian Liberal Socialism

Authoritarian Liberal Socialism is the authoritarian version of liberal socialism. It often occurs when a File:Statesoc.png state socialist government is forced to File:Left Reformism.png reform in order to preserve itself. These reforms usually occur in one of two forms. The first form is when the state socialist government undertakes a policy of File:Econlib.png economic liberalism, which allows the state’s power to remain unchallenged by outside forces. The second form is when a state socialist government introduces File:Marketsoc.png cooperatives into the economy and begins to allow greater freedoms to the people.

Alternatively, authoritarian liberal socialism can be read as a strong state that provides File:Socauth.png welfare in conjunction with liberal principles such as republicanism and some socialist principles like land reform in an attempt to forstall further radicalism.

File:BreadTube.png BreadTube

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Regional Tendencies

File:SDA.png American Social Democracy

American Social Democracy refers to the File:Cball-USA.png American variant of social democracy. It is the File:LeftSocdem.png left-wing version of social democracy which is File:Lpop.png left-populist.

Personality and Behaviour

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How it acts

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Aesthetics

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Stylistic Notes

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How to draw

Symbols

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Flags

Liberal socialism's symbol is a crossed hammer and quill, the symbol of the Czech National Social Party and of the Radical Civic Union which were historically regarded as liberal socialist parties. The symbols of the hammer and quill represent solidarity between workers and clerks.

File:Liberalsoc flag.svg

Flag of Liberal Socialism

Props

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Drawing

1. Draw a ball
2. Draw a red hammer and a feather crossed
3. Add the eyes and you're done!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Red	#D00505	rgb(208, 5, 5)
	White	#FFFFFF	rgb(255, 255, 255)

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Relationships

Friends

• Liberalism - Liberty, equality, and solidarity must be the eternal creed of mankind.
• Socialism - What is governmental democracy without File:WPD.png economic democracy?
• File:ItalianResistance.png Rossellism - The founder of our movement, and a martyr to the cause of liberty.
• Bernsteinism - That which is generally called the end of socialism is nothing, but the movement is everything.
• Democracy - Of the people, by the people, and for the people.
• File:Civlibert.png Civil Libertarianism - Hooray for human rights!
• Progressivism - We shall make history march to the beat of progress!
• File:Cosmo.png Cosmopolitanism - The world is my country,
• File:Multicult.png Multiculturalism - All mankind are my brethren,
• Secularism - And to do good is my religion.
• File:Radlib.png Radicalism - I am the modern form of you and the heir to your noble cause, dear friend.
• File:Marketsoc.png Market Socialism - What good is socialism if the people starve?
• File:Radcent.png Radical Centrism - Dogmatism is the bane of progress.
• File:Left Reformism.png Reformism - Revolution is not radical, today it is really the idealistic mirage of future revolution which keeps the people from realizing the power they hold in the present. Real radical action is changing the world.
• Social Democracy and File:Nordmodel.png Nordic Model - Your model is the farthest we’ve come, but we will push beyond it..
• Social Liberalism - We are very similar, but you often focus far too much on defining yourself in support of the status quo. But Gobetti, Thomas Mann, Rawls, and Bobbio are based.
• Democratic Socialism - You are often more against the status quo than me, but many of your followers agree with me on many issues. (Still, we are not the same).
• File:Mandela.png Mandelaism - South Africa owes you a debt it could never repay.
• File:Sun Yat-Sen.png Sun Yat-sen Thought - What China could have been... Rest in peace, comrade Sun Yat-sen.
• File:Gorb.png Gorbachevism - Your sacrifice will not be forgotten. I know that right now it may seem that you failed, but history will vindicate you. Too bad Yeltsin destroyed your plans.
• File:Kerensky.png Kerenskyism - Never before has a man so noble had his legacy so defamed.
• Machiavellianism - “You call it selling out your principles, I call it fucking winning - and that's my principle.”

Frenemies

• File:Centmarxf.png Centrist Marxism - We disagree, but many of my most prominent advocates started out in your ranks, from George Orwell and Clement Attlee to Willy Brandt.
• File:Sewersoc.png Sewer Socialism - We could have been friends, but you just had to call me "Worse then Mitch McConnell", huh?
• Classical Liberalism - You founded our movement in liberty, but answer me this, is a man thirsty in a desert truly free?
• File:Utsoc.png Utopian Socialism - We are fellow utopians, but your models were hopelessly naive.
• Anarchism - You act like we do what we do out of weakness, but you have no understanding of the existing system or what you wish to replace it with. While you get to explore the fantasies of tomorrow, we must do the menial work which consists of today.
• Capitalism - Markets aren't inherently capitalist, hope you can realize that.
• Neoliberalism - I can uniquely appreciate the boons of the modern world, but you are so narcissistically incompetent and unwilling to bend to populism that often you almost seem to be actively inviting the rise of world Fascism.
• File:Lpop.png Left-Wing Populism - The people must become politically conscious while avoiding File:Compop.png faux radicalism.
• Libertarian Socialism - Our ideals are aligned, but you would not even know what to do if power fell into your lap.
• File:Chomsky.png Chomskyism - Idk man, you said some pretty nice things about me, but your tendency to downplay the crimes of genocidal dictators just because they don't like the US is usually the kind of stuff I'd expect from tankies rather than a self-described left-libertarian, let alone an anarchist.
• File:Fabian.png Fabian Socialism - I'm glad you like my ideas, but what's with the Eugenics?
• Neoconservatism - You are often the arm of imperialism, but I would not deny in theory that international law and an arsenal of democracy would be beneficial.
• File:Tito.png Titoism - Your anti-fascist and anti-Stalinist action was commendable, and your attempts at Market Socialism are useful for study, but your regime was hopelessly corrupt and authoritarian.
• Civic Nationalism - I am a staunch opponent of nationalism, but loving one’s republic is not necessarily wrong.
• Left-Wing Nationalism - I suppose some nationalism is acceptable if used for the purpose of social reform and principled anti-colonial struggle.
• File:Libfem.png Liberal Feminism - Look I get what you’re trying to do, but you’re so incompetent at messaging and hyper focused on inconsequential cultural issues that you end up hurting more than you help.
• Third Way - I really don’t like you, but Tony Blair gets an unreasonably bad rap on the left, and some of your policy achievements are commendable.
• File:Synclib.png Big Tent Liberalism - I like you even less, but I would march through hell to elect you over a fascist.
• Marxism - Many of your ideas are compelling, but you are far too esoteric, determinist, and dogmatic to be a useful guide in the modern day.
• File:Catherine II the Great.png Catherinianism - Absolutist, but we are both quite fond of horses.

Enemies

• File:Orthlen.png Leninism - Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away.
• Marxism–Leninism - An authoritarian perversion of socialism which exists only to justify totalitarian states.
• Fascism - It is truly astounding how ideas that are in such contradiction with the interests of humanity find such purchase in the minds of the people. What do you mean File:Gentile.png you're more liberal than Wilson and more socialist than Lenin?
• Dengism - BACKSTABBER! REMEMBER THE STUDENTS! REMEMBER HU YAOBANG! REMEMBER ZHAO ZIYANG! ALSO STOP VIOLATING FILIPINO SEAS!
• File:Capcom.png Capitalist Communism - No, Liberalism is not an inherently Capitalist ideology, I'm not you!
• Nazism - “The American people will fight with a relentless fury which will drive the ancient Teutonic gods back cowering into their caves. The Götterdämmerung has come for Odin and his crew.”
• Conservatism - Look forward, not back. The glory days of humanity are yet to come.
• File:Confem-alt.png Conservative Feminism - If you want to stay in the kitchen so much then get out of my face.
• Ethnocracy - Imagine caring about the color of people’s skin lmfao..
• File:Thatcher.png Thatcherism - It doesn't matter if you are a "liberal". You called Mandela's political party a "terrorist organization" and refused to impose sanctions on apartheid!
• Reactionaryism, Paleoconservatism and File:Tradcon.png Classical Conservatism - Reaction must die if man is to live.
• Alt-Right - You all need to touch grass and feel the warm light on your skin.
• File:Obj.png Objectivism - You are objectively evil.
• File:EFF.png Economic Freedom Fighters - Literally the kill whitey party. Get booted from ANC!
• File:Zuma.png Zumaism - You ruined my party, stole votes from me, and let me no choice but to ally with File:DA-SouthAfrica.png my (former) opposition. You get the boot as well.
• Crowderism - I am not Adolf Hitler.
• File:Jihad.png Jihadism - Fundamentalism must be purged from the Earth.
• File:LeftCom.png Italian Left Communism - You are quite literally a red fascist and emblematic of the rot of Leninism. How can you claim to be a socialist while rejecting democracy and freedom?
  • File:LeftCom.png And how THE FUCK can you call yourself a socialist when 95% of the time you don't even believe in getting rid of private property on so much as the bourgeois legal stage?

• File:RodrigoDuterte.png Duterteism - Your policies on LGBT and Drugs were horrible. At least you are gone now.
• File:BongbongMarcos.png Bongbong Marcosism - NO YOUR EVEN WORSE THEN THE ABOVE HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?!?!?!?
• File:Ottoman.png Neo-Ottomanism - QUIT TRYING TO BAN ME IN TURKEY! I AM NOT A File:PKK-icon-pcb.png PKK SYMPATHISER! STOP MAKING UP BULLSHIT! Actually maybe I am.

Bibliography

File:Book.png Literature

Primary Literature

File:ItalianResistance.png Carlo Rosselli

• Liberal Socialism

Eduard Bernstein

• Evolutionary Socialism

File:Mill.png John Stuart Mill

• Principles of Political Economy
• On Liberty
• On Socialism

Collection of Literature

• Equality by Henry Richard Tawney
• Fabian Essays in Socialism by File:Fabian.png The Fabian Society
• A Theory of Justice by File:Rawls.png John Rawls
• The Great Transformation by File:Polanyi.png Karl Polanyi
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by File:Keynes.png John Maynard Keynes
• Keynes Against Capitalism: His Economic Case for Liberal Socialism by File:Postkeynes.png James Crotty
• Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World by File:L-lib.png Marc-William Palen
• At the Liberal-Socialist Nexus by Paul Crider

Secondary Literature

• Liberalism’s Crisis, Socialism’s Promise by File:Dsa.png Joseph M. Schwartz
• What is a "Liberal Socialist"? by File:Radfem.png Wendy Cockcroft

Periodicals

• Socialists Don't Want to Destroy Liberalism. We Want to Go Beyond It. by File:ProgSoc.png Matt McManus
• We Should Go Beyond Liberalism, Not Abandon It by File:ProgSoc.png Matt McManus
• What is Liberal Socialism? by File:ProgSoc.png Matt McManus

News

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Mainstream News

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Interviews

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Quotes

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Further Reading

• How to be a Conservative-Liberal-Socialist by Leszek Kołakowski

Misc Texts

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Further Information

For overlapping ideologies see:

Socialism, Social Liberalism, Liberalism, Social Democracy, File:Dsa.png Democratic Socialism, Reformist Marxism,
File:Marketsoc.png Market Socialism, File:Radlib.png Radicalism, Jacobinism, File:Keynes.png Keynesian School

Websites

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File:Wikipedia.png Wikipedia

• Liberal Socialism File:Liberalsoc.png
• Ethical Socialism File:Ethsoc.png
• BreadTube File:BreadTube.png

Online Communities

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File:Reddit.png Subreddits

• r/LiberalSocialism
• r/AOC
• r/OurPresident
• r/BreadTube File:BreadTube.png

File:YouTube.png Videos

• Breadtube vs Economics #1: Response to Philosophy Tube on Housing by File:Socgeo.png Unlearning Economics
• How Privatisation Fails: Railways by File:BreadTube.png Shaun
• I Ruin Apartheid by Making it Political by File:BreadTube.png Step Back
• Breadtubers Are Crypto-Tankies by File:SFO.png ShortFatOtaku

Channels

• File:Cball-Hungary.png Adam Something
• Vaush File:Vaush.png
• SocDoneLeft File:TankiehijackLiberalsoc.png

People

• File:Cball-Philippines.png Risa Hontiveros File:RisaHontiveros.png
• John Stuart Mill File:Mill.png
• John Maynard Keynes File:Keynes.png
• Bertrand Russell
• R. H. Tawney File:Ethsoc.png
• File:Cball-AustriaHungary.png Karl Polanyi File:Polanyi.png
• Eduard Bernstein
• Carlo Rosselli File:ItalianResistance.png
• John Rawls File:Rawls.png
• File:Cball-South Africa.png Nelson Mandela File:Mandela.png
• Mikhail Gorbachev File:Gorb.png
• Alexander Kerensky File:Kerensky.png
• Cornel West File:Dr. West.png
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
• Oliver Markus Malloy File:Cball-USA.png

Organizations

Political Parties

• Fabian Society File:Fabian.png
• Action Party File:ItalianResistance.png
• File:Cball-Czechia.png Czech National Social Party File:EdvardBenes.png
• Left Together File:Razem.png
• Ratz
• File:Cball-South Africa.png African National Congress
• Democratic Socialists of America File:Dsa.png
• File:Cball-Brazil.png Workers' Party File:BrazilPT.png
• File:Cball-India.png All India Trinamool Congress File:Lpop.png
• File:Cball-Philippines.png Akbayan

Groups

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Misc

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See also

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Gallery

Comics

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• By u/Dr_Occo_Nobi
  By u/Dr_Occo_Nobi
• By NR34. Liberal Socialism is to the left of File:Lpop.png Left-Wing Populism.
  By NR34. Liberal Socialism is to the left of File:Lpop.png Left-Wing Populism.

Portraits

• Old portrait
  Old portrait

Portraits of Variants

• Gorbachevism
  Gorbachevism

Portraits of Alternate Designs

(here go portraits of the alternate designs of the ideology)

Compasses

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  By AquaHeart