The People's Line

The People's Line

Liberalism must be defeated

Liberalism means private property. Socialists can't tolerate it.

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Carl Beijer
Oct 03, 2020
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Matt McManus, writing for Jacobin, argues that Socialists Don’t Want to Destroy Liberalism. We Want to Go Beyond It. Predictably, this has sparked some significant criticism among socialists — in particular, because the article takes sides in a longstanding controversy within socialist traditions over the role of bourgeois individualized rights. On that…

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