liberal democracy

[Brad DeLong]

>>Tahir: Well this doesn't say very much about the kind of human 
>>community in which this is possible. Even acepting your rather 
>>vague definition, I can't see how the liberal conception of freedom 
>>could bring this about.
>
>It can't. Conceptions don't bring about social change. Class struggle dies.

No! No! You don't understand! Social being does not cause social 
consciousness, social consciousness causes social being!

Indeed, there is no such thing as social being at all! There is only 
social consciousness, which is produced by conceptions!