Karl Marx celebrated liberalism’s achievements, such as freedom of the press, while excoriating its fidelity to private property rights. We can hold the same tension in our minds — fiercely opposing capitalism while fighting to make liberal rights real through socialist transformation.

Karl Marx celebrated liberalism’s achievements, such as freedom of the press, while excoriating its fidelity to private property rights. We can hold the same tension in our minds — fiercely opposing capitalism while fighting to make liberal rights real through socialist transformation.

    • Heaven_and_Earth [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I think those sentences are coherent. It says Marx supported liberal rights like freedom of the press, but opposed private property rights. A socialist transformation can guarantee the good liberal rights while abolishing the bad one (private property)