Is Liberal Socialism Possible? Reflections on “Real Utopias”

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-538
Author(s):  
Ira Katznelson
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Socialism

This essay, written in memory of Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019), explores the possibility of liberal socialism. Wright sought to rescue both liberalism and socialism from their demonstrated capacity for depredation. His legacy challenges reformers to proceed with the audacity of real, and realistic, utopianism together with an awareness that, unfortunately, the obverse of an appealing utopianism always beckons.

For a Liberal Socialism

Dissent ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 80-82
Author(s):  
Mitchell Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Socialism

Against Egalitarianism

2020 ◽  
pp. 173-209
Author(s):  
Kevin Vallier
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Local Control ◽  
John Rawls ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Redistributive Taxation ◽  
Liberal Societies ◽  
The Right ◽  
Liberal Socialism

Highly redistributive taxation and left-wing regimes like property-owning democracy and liberal socialism cannot create trust for the right reasons. They are either likely to reduce social and political trust or cannot be publicly justified, or both. For example, property-owning democracy and liberal socialism are likely to sacrifice economic growth, violating the principle of sustainable improvements, and undermining the economic bases for political trust in particular. However, liberal societies can probably increase trust for the right reasons by adopting coercion-reducing policies aimed at compressing economic inequalities, such as reducing local control over residential zoning. The market may also be restricted to protect workers from workplace coercion. This chapter addresses important work on the matter from John Rawls, Thomas Piketty, and Martin Gilens.

scholarly journals Conservative Liberal Socialism and Politics of a Complex Center

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-22
Author(s):  
Karol Edward Soltan
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Socialism ◽  
Complex Center

Democratic Rights and the Choice of Economic Systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeppe von Platz
Keyword(s):  
Economic Systems ◽  
First Principle ◽  
Justice As Fairness ◽  
Principle Of Justice ◽  
Democratic Control ◽  
Democratic Rights ◽  
Liberal Socialism ◽  
Theory Of Democracy

AbstractHolt argues that Rawls’s first principle of justice requires democratic control of the economy and that property owning democracy fails to satisfy this requirement; only liberal socialism is fully democratic. However, the notion of democratic control is ambiguous, and Holt has to choose between the weaker notion of democratic control that Rawls is committed to and the stronger notion that property owning democracy fails to satisfy. It may be that there is a tension between capitalism and democracy, so that only liberal socialism can be fully democratic, but if so,we should reject, rather than argue from, the theory of democracy we find in justice as fairness.

THE EMERGENCE OF LIBERAL SOCIALISM IN CONTINENTAL EUROPE1

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 94-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetozar Pejovich
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Socialism
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