Which is why I am a socialist, eh?
(the sorta power that
>now has you so regularly assuring the LBO archives of your acceptable
>political hue?) - with which liberalism would have a problem, owing to the
>rights to property immanent in yer formal liberal individual ...
There is no "now" about it; I have always been a liberal democrat. And it's not a position that wins me much credit here, any more than my socialist politics are likely to win me much credit with, say, the Senate Judiciary Committee.
I don't think that private property rights are "immanent" in liberal democracy, a view I identify with a commitment to competitive elections, universal suffrage, and broad civil and political rights, including particularly rights of freedom of speech and assembly, to due process and equal protection of the laws. I think any socialism worth fighting for will embody liberal democracy in this sense--totally standard and utterly nonidiosyncratic--that I state here.
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