What Is Liberal in Liberal Socialism

What is "liberal socialism"?

Photo by Etienne Girardet on UnsplashPaul Crider asks What Is Liberal in Liberal Socialism for a new piece in Liberal Currents:What it means to be a socialist in the Trump era has less to do with Marxist theory, revolutionary vanguardism, seizing the means of production, or even worker cooperatives, and much more to do with a series of ethical commitments that remain largely unwelcome within mainstream liberal politics even as they continue to s…

What Is Liberal in Liberal Socialism

You put the sign in your yard and you meant what it said. Black lives do matter. No human is illegal. Diversity is strength. Love is love. We should trust science. You see ICE terrorizing your neighbors, drug-addled billionaires gutting essential services and life-saving aid, and a far-right government assaulting democracy at every level, down to its foundations. You volunteer and donate to causes. And you vote. You vote and vote and vote—blue n…