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.
Does this motherfucker think it's still 1848, the history of liberalism in the last 170 years has absolutely renounced all claims to the advancement of individual and collective rights
Everywhere and always during the 21st, 20th and latter half of the 19th century liberalism has been the standard bearer of the status quo, the justifier of capitalist property rights and harshest critic of democracy (see everything Chomsky's written about)
It's been socialists and anarchists who've advanced the struggle and always in the teeth of liberal opposition
The utopia in the minds of the most left leaning liberals is a technocratic plutocracy with eugenicist characteristics where western imperialism reigns superme, fuck that