> well, i guess i was thinking that mass political movements refer to
> movements inspired by marxism, not Liberalism. Maybe I am misreading.
What I meant was that the real, existing, historical mass political movements that were "inspired by Marxism" weren't really inspired by what *you* think of as Marxism. Their Marxism (except for a few heterodox intellectuals) was about Progress, Science, Justice, Democracy, etc. Yours is probably a more accurate and certainly more philosophically sophisticated version, in which contesting liberal ideas about individuals/freedom/knowledge occupies an important place. In other words, I think most of the historically existing mass Marxist movements in the West were what you would call Enlightenment Liberal.
SA