The historical shortcomings of liberalism don’t mean that socialists should throw liberalism out wholesale. On the contrary: socialism needs liberalism.

Holy shit Jacobin is on a roll this week.

  • peeonyou [he/him]
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    20 days ago

    If liberals don’t learn from socialists and vice versa, we might not see either doctrine survive into the twenty-first century.

    Written in 2024.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      20 days ago

      That may be a bit of a mask drop: not knowing anything else by the one that wrote it, maybe they're a "peaked in the 90s" gen-X asshole that is still chasing that "end of history" dragon.