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<blockquote>''Not to be confused with [[File:Libsoc.png]] [[Libertarian Socialism]] or [[File:Soclib.png]] [[Social Liberalism]].''</blockquote>
{{Ideology
{{Ideology
|title1 = [[File: Liberalsoc.png]] Liberal Socialism
|title=[[File:Liberalsoc.png]] Liberal Socialism [[File:LiberalsocALT.png]]
|image1 = Liberal socialism.png
|image=
|aliases =Radlib
64574754.png|Liberal Socialism
|quadrant(s) =
|aliases={{Collapse|
[[File: Leftunity.png]] [[:Category:Left Unity|LeftUnity]] <br>
[[File:SocialistLib.png]] Red Liberalism<br>
[[File: Prgess.png]] [[:Category:Culturally Left|Culturally Left]]<br>
[[File:SocialistLiberal.png]] Liberalism with Socialist characteristics<br>
[[File:Soc.png]] [[:Category:Socialists|Socialists]]<br>
[[File:SocialistLiberal.png]] Socialist Liberalism<br>
[[File:Lib.png]] [[:Category:Liberals|Liberals]] <br>  
[[File:LeftWingLib.png]] Left-Wing Liberalism<br>
|family =
[[File:SocDemCorp.png]] [[Progressivism|New/Neo-Social Democracy]]<br>
[[File:Lib.png]] [[Liberalism]] (Parent) <br>
[[File:SDA.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism|American Social Democracy]]<br>
[[File:Soc.png]] [[Socialism]] (Parent) <br>
[[File:ZoomerLeft.png]] Zoomer LeftUnity<br>
[[File: Soclib.png]] [[Social Liberalism]] (Sibling) <br>
[[File:Twitter.png]] [[Ochlocracy|Twitter Socialism]]<br>
[[File:Bernst.png]] [[Bernsteinism]] (Sibling)
[[File:BreadTube.png]] [[Progressivism|Breadtube Community]]<br>
|themecolor = #ffffff|textcolor = #d00505
[[File:LeftSocdem.png]] Left-Social Democracy [[File:LeftSocdem-Alt.png]]<br>
|caption1=|definition=|song=|founder=|likes=|dislikes=}}
[[File:Leftliberalism-icon.png]] Left-Social Liberalism<br>
'''Liberal Socialism''', not to be confused [[File: Soclib.png]] [[Social Liberalism|social liberalism]] or [[File: Libsoc.png]] [[Libertarian Socialism|libertarian socialism]], is a broad set of political movements which combine [[File:Lib.png]] [[liberal democracy|liberal democratic]] values with [[File:Soc.png]] [[Socialism|socialist]] economics. A liberal socialist society could be said to be one in which all members of society are granted a set of inalienable positive and negative rights combined with an economic system based workplace democracy.
[[File:ModDemsoc.png]] Diet [[Democratic Socialism|DemSoc]]<br>
[[File:CentristSoc.png]] Centrist Socialism<br>
[[File:PragmatSoc.png]] Pragmatic Socialism<br>
[[File:L-lib.png]] Literally [[Left-Liberalism (Disambiguation)|Left-Liberalism]]<br>
[[File:EvolutionarySoc.png]] [[Reformist Marxism|Evolutionary Socialism]]<br>
[[File:Mutlib.png]] Mutualist Liberalism<br>
[[File:ProgSoc.png]] Progressive Socialism (Most)<br>
[[File:LeftAntiCom.png]] Left-Wing Anti-Communism (Most)<br>
[[File:Bertsoc.png]] [[Liberaltarianism|Liberaltarian]] [[Libertarian Socialism|Socialism]] [[File:LeftBert.png]] (Some)<br>
[[File:SocHawk.png]] [[Trotskyism|Socialist Hawk]] [[File:SocdemHawk.png]] (Some)<br>
[[File:Mandela.png]] [[African Socialism|Mandelaism]]<br>
[[File:Lula.png]] [[Socialism of the 21st Century|Lulism]]<br>
[[File:Gorb.png]] [[Reformist Marxism|Gorbachevism]]<br>
[[File:Mill.png]] {{PCBA|Millism}}<br>
[[File:AOC.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism|AOCism]]<br>
[[File:Huism.png]] [[Dengism|Hu Yaobang Thought]]<br>
[[File:Pinkcapcom.png]] [[Pink Capitalism|Pink Capit]][[Capitalist Communism|alist Communism]]<br>{{Alias|R-lib.png|Right-Liberalism (Disambiguation)|[[File:SochijackLib.png]] Socialism with a liberal mask}}<br>
{{Alias|R-lib.png|Right-Liberalism (Disambiguation)|[[File:CryptoTankie.png]] Crypto-Tankie}}<br>
{{Alias|Bernstein.png|Reformist Marxism|[[File:Orglib.png]] Organized Liberalism}}<br>
[[File:Hitler.png]] [[Nazism|Hitlerism]] (by [[File:Alt-shite.png]] [[Alt-Lite|Steven Crowder]])<br>
[[File:NatLibSoc.png]] [[National Communism|National Liberal Socialism]] (SWHF)<br>
[[File:ZoomerSoc.png]] Millennial/Zoomer Socialism (in [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA and [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK)<br>
[[File:Ethsoc.png]] Ethical Socialism (in [[File:Cball-UK.png]] United Kingdom)<br>
[[File:EdvardBenes.png]] [[:w:cs:Národní socialismus|National Socialism]] (In [[File:Cball-Czechia.png]] Czechia/Czechoslovakia only)<br>
[[File:LibtardSoc.png]] Libtard Socialism (Pejoratively)<br>
[[File:Radlib.png]] [[Radicalism|Radical Liberalism]] ([[File:Veryradlib.png]] Radlib; Erroneously)<br>
The logical conclusion of Liberalism (Erroneously)<br>
[[File:ModTrot.png]] [[Neoconservatism|Moderate]] [[Trotskyism]] (Erroneously)<br>
[[File:DemocratRevol.png]] <s>Mom, I'm a Democratic Revolutionary</s><br>
[[File:LvReform.png]] Reformism (by LeftValues)
}}
|alignments=[[File:Leftunity.png]] [[:Category:Left Unity|LeftUnity]] to [[File:Libleft.png]] [[:Category:Libertarian Left|LibLeft]]<br>
[[File:CLeft.png]] [[:Category:Centrists|Center]][[:Category:Left_Unity|-Left]] (some)<br>
[[File:Prgess.png]] [[:Category:Culturally Left|Culturally Left]]<br>
[[File:Soc-h.png]] [[:Category:Socialists|Socialists]]<br>
[[File:Lib.png]] [[:Category:Liberals|Liberals]]<br>
[[File:Welf.png]] [[:Category:Welfarists|Welfarists]]<br>
[[File:L-lib.png]] [[Left-Liberalism (Disambiguation)|LeftLib]] Gang
'''Variants'''{{Collapse|
[[File:Centre-Lib.png]] [[:Category:Centrists|Centre-]][[:Category:Libertarian Unity|LibUnity]] ([[File:Calenda.png]] Calendaism, [[File:Partito Socialista Italiano-icon.png]] Craxism)<br>
}}
|themecolor=#ffffff
|textcolor=#d00505
|caption="Freedom and Socialism by and for the people!"
|theorists=
[[File:PanAmer.png]] '''Americas''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:HGreeley.png]] [[Agrarian Socialism|Horace Greeley]] (1811-1872) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
*[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism|Álvaro Pío Valencia]] (1911-1998) [[File:Cball-Colombia.png]] Colombia
*[[File:Rawls.png]] [[Social Liberalism|John Rawls]] (1921-2002) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
*[[File:Chomsky.png]] [[Libertarian Socialism|Noam Chomsky]] (1928-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
*[[File:Demsocstar.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|Carlos Gaviria Díaz]] (1937-2015) [[File:Cball-Colombia.png]] Colombia
*[[File:Lula.png]] [[Social Democracy|Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]] (1945-) [[File:Cball-Brazil.png]] Brazil
*[[File:Santa.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism|Santa Claus]] (1947-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
*[[File:Mediastocracy_flair.png]] [[Mediacracy|Lawrence O'Donnell]] (1951-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
*[[File:LeftSatirism.png]] [[Satirism|Bill Burr]] (1968-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
*[[File:AOC.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism|Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]] (1989-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
*[[File:ProgSoc.png]] [[Progressivism|Maxwell Frost]] (1997-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
*[[File:Hedonism.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|Princestia Chi]] (2000-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
*[[File:Ultraprogressivism.png]] [[Revolutionary Progressivism|Claudia Conway]] (2004-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
}}
[[File:Cball-Commonwealth.png]] '''Commonwealth Realm''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Mill.png]] [[Civil Libertarianism|John Stuart Mill]] (1806-1873) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK
*[[File:Marxflag.png]] [[Marxism|Henry Hyndman]] (1842-1921) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK
*[[File:BertrandRussel.png]] [[Guild Socialism|Bertrand Russell]] (1875-1970) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK
*[[File:Christsoc.png]] [[Christian Socialism|R. H. Tawney]] (1880-1962) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK
*[[File:Keynes.png]] [[Keynesian School|John Maynard Keynes]] (1883-1946) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK
*[[File:Hawking.png]] [[Scientocracy|Stephen Hawking]] (1942-2018) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK
*[[File:Burn.png]] [[Social Democracy|Andy Burnham]] (1970-) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK
}}
[[File:Cball-EU.png]] '''Europe''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Bernstein.png]] [[Reformist Marxism|Eduard Bernstein]] (1850-1932) [[File:Cball-Germany.png]] Germany
*[[File:Kerensky.png]] [[Agrarian Socialism|Alexander Kerensky]] (1881-1970) [[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Russia
*[[File:EdvardBenes.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|Edvard Beneš]] (1884-1948) [[File:Cball-Czechia.png]] Czechoslovakia
*[[File:Polanyi.png]] [[Market Socialism|Karl Polanyi]] (1886-1964) [[File:Cball-AustriaHungary.png]] Austria-Hungary
*[[File:Antifa.png]] [[Anti-Fascism|Carlo Rosselli]] (1899-1937) [[File:Cball-King-Italy.png]] Italy
*[[File:Djilas2.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|Milovan Djilas]] (1911-1995) [[File:Cball-Yugoslavia.png]] Yugoslavia
*[[File:Gorb.png]] [[Reformist Marxism|Mikhail Gorbachev]] (1931-2022) [[File:Bolshevism ball.png]] USSR/[[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Russia
*[[File:Partito Socialista Italiano-icon.png]] [[Kleptocracy|Bettino Craxi]] (1934-2000) [[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Italy
*[[File:Demsocstar.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|Jorge Sampaio]] (1939-2021) [[File:Cball-Portugal.png]] Portugal
*[[File:Miller.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|Leszek Miller]] (1946-) [[File:Cball-Poland.png]] Poland
*[[File:Rutskoy.png]] [[Left-Wing Nationalism|Alexander Rutskoy]] (1947-) [[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Russia
*[[File:LIVREism.png]] [[Social Libertarianism|Rui Tavares]] (1972-) [[File:Cball-Portugal.png]] Portugal
*[[File:ProgSoc.png]] [[Progressivism|Oliver Markus Malloy]] (?) [[File:Cball-Germany.png]] [[File:Cball-USA.png]]
}}
[[File:PanAsian.png]] '''Asia''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:XiZhongxun.png]] [[Dengism|Xi]] [[Reformism|Zhongxun]] (1913-2002) [[File:Cball-China.png]] PRC
*[[File:Huism.png]] [[Reformism|Hu]] [[Dengism|Yaobang]] (1915-1989) [[File:Cball-China.png]] PRC
*[[File:ZhaoZiyang.png]] [[Authoritarian Democracy|Zhao]] [[Dengism|Ziyang]] (1919-2005) [[File:Cball-China.png]] PRC
*[[File:Leftpop-0.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism|Kousuke Emori]] (1987-) [[File:Cball-Japan.png]] Japan
}}
[[File:Cball-AfricanUnion.png]] '''Africa''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Mandela.png]] [[African Socialism|Nelson Mandela]] (1918-2013) [[File:Cball-South Africa.png]] South Africa
}}
|influences=
*'''Main'''
[[File:Bernst.png]] [[Reformist Marxism|Bernsteinism]]<br>
[[File:Lib.png]] [[Liberalism]]<br>
[[File:Marketsoc.png]] [[Market Socialism]]<br>
[[File:Radlib.png]] [[Radicalism|Radical Liberalism]]<br>
[[File:Left Reformism.png]] [[Reformism]]<br>
[[File:Utsoc.png]] [[Utopian Socialism]]<br>
*'''Factions''' {{Collapse|
**[[File:Agsoc.png]] [[Agrarian Socialism]]
**[[File:Thar.png]] [[Anti-Authoritarianism]]
**[[File:Anticap.png]] Anti-Capitalism
**[[File:Anticon.png]] Anti-Conservatism
**[[File:Antifash2.png]] [[Anti-Fascism]]
**[[File:Christsoc.png]] [[Christian Socialism]]
**[[File:Clib.png]] [[Classical Liberalism]]
**[[File:LeftAntiCom.png]] {{PCBA|Left Anti-Communism}}
**[[File:Leftpop-0.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism]]
**[[File:Pac.png]] Pacifism
**[[File:Pragmat.png]] [[Machiavellianism|Pragmatism]]
**[[File:Ricardosoc.png]] [[Ricardian Socialism]]
**[[File:Soclib.png]] [[Social Liberalism]]
}}
|sub =
|variants=[[File:BreadTube.png]] '''BreadTube''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Antifash2.png]] [[Anti-Fascism]]
*[[File:Anti-ML.png]] Anti-ML (Self-proclaimed by most)
*[[File:Champagne Socialism.png]] [[Capitalist Communism|Champagne Socialism]]
*[[File:CryptoTankie.png]] Crypto-Tankiesm (Accused)
*[[File:Dsa.png]] [[Democratic Socialism]]
*[[File:Ecosoc.png]] [[Eco-Socialism]] (Some)
*[[File:Leftpop-0.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism]]
*[[File:Libsoc.png]] [[Libertarian Socialism]] (Many)
*[[File:Marketsoc.png]] [[Market Socialism]] (Many)
*[[File:ProgSoc.png]] [[Progressivism]]
*[[File:Ultraprogressivism.png]] [[Revolutionary Progressivism]] (Some)
*[[File:SocFem.png]] [[Marxist Feminism|Socialist Feminism]]
*[[File:Utility.png]] {{PCBA|Utilitarianism}} (Some)
}}
|regional=
[[File:AOC.png]] '''AOCism''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Dsa.png]] [[Democratic Socialism]] (Self-proclaimed)
*[[File:Ecosoc.png]] [[Eco-Socialism|Green New Dealism]]
*[[File:Keynes.png]] [[Keynesian School]]
*[[File:Leftpop-0.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism]]
*[[File:Isolationist.png]] [[Isolationism|Non-Interventionism]]
*[[File:ProgSoc.png]] [[Progressivism]]
*[[File:AntiAntiAbortion.png]] Pro-Abortion
*[[File:LeftSocdem.png]] [[Social Democracy|Left-Social Democracy]]
*[[File:SocFem.png]] [[Marxist Feminism|Socialist Feminism]]
*[[File:Kak.png]] [[Kakistocracy]] (Accused)
}}
[[File:EdvardBenes.png]] '''Benešism''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Antifash2.png]] [[Anti-Fascism]]
*[[File:Ethnonat.png]] [[Ethnonationalism]]
*[[File:Mil.png]] [[Stratocracy|Militarism]]
*[[File:PanSlav.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism|Pan-Slavism]]
*[[File:ProgSoc.png]] [[Progressivism]]
*[[File:Socnat.png]] {{PCBA|Social Nationalism}}
}}
[[File:BertrandRussel.png]] '''Bertrand Russell Thought''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Anti-Bolshevik.png]] Anti-Bolshevism
*[[File:Bernst.png]] [[Reformist Marxism|Bernsteinism]]
*[[File:Civlibert.png]] [[Civil Libertarianism]]
*[[File:Fem.png]] [[Feminism]]
*[[File:Guildsoc.png]] [[Guild Socialism]] (Early On)
*[[File:Antiimp.png]] [[Isolationism|Non-Interventionism]] (Except for WWII)
*[[File:ProgAth.png]] [[Progressivism|Progressive Atheism]]
*[[File:Socgeo.png]] [[Social Georgism]]
*[[File:Soclib.png]] [[Social Liberalism]] (Later)
*[[File:Utility.png]] {{PCBA|Utilitarianism}} (Disowned)
*[[File:World Federalism2.png]] [[World Federalism]] (Later)
}}
[[File:Calenda.png]] '''Calendaism/Azione''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Antipop.png]] Anti-Populism
*[[File:Atlanticism.png]] [[Neoconservatism|Atlanticism]]
*[[File:Econlib.png]] [[Fiscal Conservatism|Economic Liberalism]] (Formerly)
*[[File:Ecosoc.png]] [[Eco-Socialism]]
*[[File:European Federalism.png]] [[European Federalism]]
*[[File:Republicanismpix.png]] [[Left-Wing Nationalism|Mazzinianism]]
*[[File:Multicult.png]] [[Multiculturalism]]
*[[File:Community.png]] [[Communitarianism|Popularism]]
*[[File:Pragmat.png]] [[Machiavellianism|Pragmatism]]
*[[File:ProgSoc.png]] [[Progressivism]]
*[[File:Reform.png]] [[Reformism]]
*[[File:Soclib.png]] [[Social Liberalism]]
*[[File:Welf.png]] [[Welfarism]]
*[[File:Auton.png]] [[Autonomism|Workerism]] (Accused, kinda self-proclaimed)
}}
[[File:Partito Socialista Italiano-icon.png]] '''Craxism''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Absoc.png]] [[Arab Socialism]] (Sympathetic)
*[[File:Leftcorp.png]] [[Corporatocracy]] (Kinda)<ref>[https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decreto_Berlusconi "Decreto Berlusconi"], Italian Wikipedia.</ref>
*[[File:Cball-EU.png]] [[European Federalism|Europeanism]]
*[[File:Klep.png]] [[Kleptocracy]]
*[[File:Laicism.png]] [[Laicism]]
*[[File:LeftAntiCom.png]] {{PCBA|Left Anti-Communism}}
*[[File:SocHawk.png]] [[Neoconservatism|Left-Atlanticism]]
*[[File:Leftliberalism-icon.png]] [[Social Liberalism|Left-Liberalism]]
*[[File:Leftneolib.png]] [[Third Way|Left Neoliberalism]]
*[[File:Left Reformism.png]] [[Reformism|Left Reformism]]
*[[File:Marketsoc.png]] [[Market Socialism]]
*[[File:Proudhon.png]] [[Mutualism]] (Sympathetic)
*[[File:Cball-Palestine.png]] [[Left-Wing Nationalism|Palestinian Nationalism]] (Sympathetic)
*[[File:Pragmat.png]] [[Machiavellianism|Pragmatism]]
*[[File:Prez.png]] [[Presidentialism]]
}}
[[File:Djilas2.png]] '''Đilasism''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Anti-ML.png]] Anti-ML
*[[File:Antieast.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Imperialism|Anti-Soviet Imperialism}}
*[[File:thar.png]] [[Anti-Authoritarianism]]
*[[File:Confed.png]] [[Confederalism]]
*[[File:Civnat.png]] [[Civic Nationalism]]
*[[File:Demsocstar.png]] [[Democratic Socialism]]
*[[File:Marketsoc.png]] [[Market Socialism]]
*[[File:Tito.png]] [[Titoism]] (Formerly)
*[[File:Yugoslav Partisans.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|Yugoslav Partisanism]]
*[[File:Left Reformism.png]] [[Reformism]]
*[[File:LeftAntiCom.png]] {{PCBA|Left Anti-Communism}} (Later on)
*[[File:Progcon.png]] [[Progressive Conservatism]]
}}
[[File:Gorb.png]] '''Gorbachevism''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Anti-Stalin.png]] Anti-Stalinism
*[[File:AntiBrezhnev.png]] Anti-Brezhnevism
*[[File:Anti-Yeltsin.png]] Anti-Yeltsinism (later on)
*[[File:Anti-Corrupt.png]] Anti-Corruption
*[[File:Prohibitionism.png]] Anti-Alcohol
*[[File:Authdem.png]] [[Authoritarian Democracy]] (Black January & [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Soviet_Union_presidential_election 1990 Election])
*[[File:Fed.png]] [[Federalism|Decentralization]]
*[[File:Demsocstar.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|Democratization]]
*[[File:Eurocom.png]] [[Eurocommunism]]
*[[File:Freespeech.png]] [[Civil Libertarianism|Glasnost]]
*[[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism]] (Formerly)
*[[File:Marketsoc.png]] [[Market Socialism|Perestroika]]
*[[File:Tito.png]] [[Titoism|Yugoslavian Model]]
*[[File:Antieast.png]] Warsaw Pact Dissolution
*[[File:Post-Lenin.png]] Post-Leninism
*[[File:Bernst.png]] [[Reformist Marxism]]
*[[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy]] (Later on)
*[[File:Socauth.png]] [[Social Authoritarianism]] (Black January)
*[[File:Strato.png]] [[Stratocracy]] (accused)<ref>[[w:Stratocracy#USSR|"Stratocracy in USSR"]], Wikipedia.org.</ref>
}}
[[File:Kwaśniecki.png]] '''Kwaśnieckism''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Atlanticism.png]] Atlanticism
*[[File:PRLNostalgia.png]] Post-PRL
*[[File:Cball-EU.png]] Pro-Europeanism
*[[File:Left_Reformism.png]] [[Reformism]]
*[[File:Socneocon.png]] [[Neoconservatism|Left-Atlanticism]]
*[[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy]]
*[[File:Leftliberalism-icon.png]] [[Social Liberalism|Left-Liberalism]]
}}
[[File:KostLevytsky.png]] '''Levytskyism''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Agsoc.png]] [[Agrarian Socialism]]
*[[File:Anticommunism.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Communism}}
*[[File:Cdem.png]] [[Christian Democracy]]
*[[File:ClassSocDem.png]] [[Classical Social Democracy]]
*[[File:Consocf.png]] [[Conservative Socialism]]
*[[File:Demsocstar.png]] [[Democratic Socialism]]
*[[File:Leftnat.png]] [[Left-Wing Nationalism]]
}}
[[File:NCPA.png]] '''Pedramism''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Anticommunism.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Communism}}
*[[File:Anti-Corrupt.png]] Anti-Corruption
*[[File:Islamophobia.png]] Anti-Islamism
*[[File:AntiAfghan.png]] Anti-Pashtun
*[[File:Antieast.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Imperialism|Anti-Soviet Imperialism}}
*[[File:Fed.png]] [[Federalism]]
*[[File:Humanismpix.png]] [[Humanism]]
*[[File:Islamic Socialism.png]] [[Islamic Socialism]] (formerly)
*[[File:LeftSocdem-Alt.png]] [[Social Democracy|Left-Social Democracy]]
*[[File:Multicult.png]] [[Multiculturalism]]
*[[File:Secular.png]] [[Secularism]]
*[[File:Socfem.png]] [[Social Democracy|Social]] [[Feminism]]
*[[File:Soclib.png]] [[Social Liberalism]]
*[[File:Cball-Tajikistan.png]] [[Nationalism|Tajik Nationalism]] (accused)
*[[File:3way.png]] [[Third Way]]
}}
[[File:Kerensky.png]] '''Trudovikism''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Anticommunism.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Communism}}
*[[File:Moder.png]] [[Moderatism]]
*[[File:Pragmat.png]] [[Machiavellianism|Pragmatism]]
*[[File:Republicanismpix.png]] [[Republicanism]]
*[[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy]]
*[[File:Esers.png]] [[Agrarian Socialism|Socialist Revolutionarism]]
}}
|influenced={{Collapse|
[[File:New Labourism.png]] [[Third Way|Blairism]]<br>
[[File:Dsa.png]] [[Democratic Socialism]]<br>
[[File:Fabian.png]] [[Fabian Socialism]]<br>
[[File:Guildsoc.png]] [[Guild Socialism]]<br>
[[File:Keynes.png]] [[Keynesian School]]<br>
[[File:Mandela.png]] [[African Socialism|Mandelaism]]<br>
[[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy]]
}}
|examples =
*[[File:Cball-USSR.png]] [[Reformist Marxism|USSR under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev]] [[File:Gorb.png]]
*[[File:Cball-South Africa.png]] [[African Socialism|South Africa under Nelson Mandela]] [[File:Mandela.png]]
|likes=
[[File:Vaushism.png]] Vaush (usually)<br>
[[File:Mill.png]] John Stuart Mill<br>
[[File:Lib.png]] Liberalism<br>
[[File:Socjust.png]] Social Justice<br>
[[File:Soc-h.png]] Socializing the Means of Production<br>
[[File:BreadTube.png]] Breadtubers<br>
<s>Pepsi & Pizza Hut</s>
|dislikes=
[[File:Tankie.png]] [[Marxism-Leninism|Tankies]]<br>
[[File:ML.png]] Revolutions<br>
[[File:Conservative.png]] [[Conservatism]]<br>
[[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]] (to somewhat varying degrees)
|song=
[https://youtu.be/4XwQGXZgt0U Cinquième Gnossiène]<br>
[https://youtu.be/c17wybvjHpQ&ab Vaush Rad]<br>
[https://youtu.be/ueg-jVkHiI0 Прощай Навеки (Goodbye Forever)]<br>
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Q5Tvv5MVU Make It Shine]<br>
[https://youtu.be/tZ228CKcPgs Quand fera-t-il jour, camarade?]<br>
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL_WvOly7mY Beverly Hills]<br>
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFGdWaomt6g In Gorbachev We Trust]<br>
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM-xz4XZDNU Clap Your Hands For Mikhail Gorbachev]<br>
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcO8KV4gSlA Freestyle - Goodbye Forever] ([[File:Gorb.png]] Gorbachevism)
<br>
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'''Liberal Socialism''' ('''Libsoc''') is an economically centre-left to left-wing political theory and ideology that believes that [[File:Soc-h.png]] [[Socialism]] is compatible with [[File:Lib.png]] [[Liberalism]]. There is no one conception of what Liberal Socialism is, but rather, many different (sometimes contradictory) definitions.
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==Conceptions==
 
===[[File:Soclib.png]] As Liberal Mixed Economy[[File:Socdem.png]]===
Liberal Socialism can sometimes mean liberalism which operates through a robust mixed economy, without intentions of transferring to a fully socialist system. This often pans out as a slightly more left wing version of what is otherwise indistinguishable from [[File:Soclib.png]] [[Social Liberalism]] or [[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy]].
 
===[[File:Marketsoc.png]]As Socialist Liberal Democracy[[File:Liberal Democracy.png]]===
Alternatively, Liberal Socialism can mean a [[File:Liberal Democracy.png]] [[Liberalism|Liberal Democracy]] that would have a [[File:Marketsoc.png]] [[Market Socialism|Market Socialist]] economy, or a [[File:Demsocstar.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|Democratic Socialist]] society that would have free markets, minimal regulations, and very few (if any) planning.
 
===[[File:Bernst.png]]As Liberal/Socialist Reform===
Another way of looking at liberal socialism is as an attempt to reform a liberal economy into a fully socialist one, or alternatively, as the liberalization of a centralized [[File:Statesoc.png]] [[State Socialism|State Socialist]] government.
 
===[[File:Clib.png]]As Historiography[[File:Prog-u.png]]===
Liberal Socialism can be seen as a view of history as going from [[File:Feud.png]] [[Feudalism]] to [[File:Lib.png]] [[Liberalism]], and then Finally to [[File:Soc-h.png]] [[Socialism]]. This conception tends to view [[File:Soc-h.png]] [[Socialism]] as the best way carry on the [[File:Clib.png]] [[Classical Liberalism|Classical Liberal]] principles of [[File:Equality.png]] Equality and [[File:Liberty.png]] Liberty.
 
===[[File:MarxistHumanism.png]]Liberalism as Socialism===
Liberal socialism can also be seen as using the [[File:Lib.png]] [[Liberalism|Liberal]] philosophy that the liberty of man should not be offended and that a person should not be treated as means but as ends, extended to the economy, combined to prove socialist standpoints.
 
==History==
===[[File:Cball-Germany.png]] Germany===
<blockquote>''Main article: [[File:Bernst.png]] [[Reformist Marxism|Bernsteinism]]''</blockquote>
In Germany, liberal socialist ideals can be said to originate with the development of revisionist Marxism of Eduard Bernstein who defined the term 'socialism' as ''''Organised Liberalism'''<nowiki/>'.
 
===[[File:Cball-UK.png]] United Kingdom===
In Great Britain, the development of Liberal Socialism can be traced back to a number of sources of liberal and socialist origin. Liberal Socialism of liberal origin can be found in the theories of the political economist John Stuart Mill, who greatly influenced the political ideology of [[File:Soclib.png]] [[Social Liberalism|Social Liberalism]] which is a type of liberalism that believes that economic freedom can be only achieved through an extensive social state. Although, Mill is noted as going a step further, favoring collectivized workplaces. He theorized that [[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism|capitalist]] societies shall experience a [[File:Left Reformism.png]] [[Reformism#Left-Reformism|gradual process of socialization]] with worker cooperatives slowly replacing private enterprises.
 
John Mill's liberal socialism did not completely abolish capitalism and replace it with socialism, but it supported a mixed economy based on market socialism, including social ownership of private property and capital. Liberal socialists generally do not support centralism or socialism in the form of the state, but support the realization of property collectivization through market socialism of individual workers' cooperatives. This form of workers' community cooperatives can be seen as a manifestation of Liberalism: everyone can join according to their own free will, but if it is not conducive to their own self-development, individuals can leave at any time. Liberal socialists believe that the introduction of collective property eliminates the dependence on workers and employers, thus bringing real freedom to workers.
English liberal socialists believe that freedom and equality are mutually compatible and interdependent, and regard the material inequality produced by capitalism as one of the main reasons for the increasingly lack of freedom. Free socialists also generally support the free market, and believe that market monopoly is the inevitable result of capitalism, and only through market socialism can the real free market be achieved.
 
Liberal socialism of socialist origin in Britain can be found in the theories of the [[File:Christsoc.png]] [[Christian Socialism|Christian Socialist]] historian and activist Richard Henry Tawney, who developed a theory of ''''Ethical Socialism'''<nowiki/>'. Ethical socialism as a movement saw to justify socialism on ethical and moral grounds, as opposed to material grounds.
 
Tawney later joined, influenced, and became an executive of the socialist think tank of the ''Fabian Society'' which was a group that wanted to achieve [[File:Soc-h.png]] [[Socialism]] through [[File:Reform.png]] [[Reformism|reformist]] means in [[File:Dem.png]] [[Democracy|democracies]] ([[File:Demsocstar.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|Democratic Socialism]].) The ideology of the Fabian Society ('''Fabianism''') may, in turn, be characterized as a form of liberal socialism.
 
The term 'Liberal Socialism' was later used by the British economist [[File:Keynes.png]][[Keynesian School|John Maynard Keynes]] to describe his political ideology:<ref>[https://b-ok.cc/book/5326072/9298be ''"Keynes Against Capitalism: His Economic Case for Liberal Socialism"''] by James Crotty.</ref>
 
{{Quote|quote=The question is whether we are prepared to move out of the [[File:Clib.png]][[Classical Liberalism|nineteen-century laissez-faire]] state into an era of liberal socialism, by which I mean a system where we can act as an organized community for common purposes and to promote economic and social justice, whilst respecting and protecting the individual – his freedom of choice, his faith, his mind and its expression, his enterprise, and his property.|speaker=[[File:Keynes.png]] [[Keynesian School|John Maynard Keynes]]|source=Collected Writings, volume 2, page 500}}
 
===[[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Italy===
The term 'Liberal Socialism' was popularised by the Jewish-Italian political leader Carlo Rosselli who was influenced both by Eduard Bernstein and by the British Labour movement. Carlo Rosselli rejected the political theories of [[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism|Marx]] and favoured [[File:NonMarxSoc.png]] [[Utopian Socialism|non-Marxist socialism]]. He believed that [[File:Demlib.png]] [[Liberalism|liberal democracy]] is not just important for socialist construction, but also for its realization. Additionally, Carlo Rosseli founded Justice and Liberty (Italian: ''Giustizia e Libertà'') which was a resistance movement against the [[File:Fash.png]] [[Fascism|Fascist]] government of Italy.
 
 
===[[File:Cball-US.png]] United States===
In the United States, the term 'Liberal Socialism' was used by the political theorist John Rawls to describe his political ideology.
 
In the United States a type of Liberal Socialism was espoused by the [[File:AnSynd.png]] [[Anarcho-Syndicalism|anarcho-syndicalist]] thinker Noam Chomsky. In his book ''On Anarchism'' claiming that [[File:Libsoc.png]] [[Libertarian Socialism|libertarian socialism]] to be conclusion of [[File:Clib.png]] [[Classical Liberalism|classical liberal]] principles:<ref>[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/noam-chomsky-on-anarchism ''"On Anarchism"''], p. 14. Noam Chomsky.</ref>
 
{{Quote|quote=These ideas grow out of the [[File:Enlightenment.png]] [[Enlightenment Thought]]; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Humboldt’s Limits of State Action, Kant’s insistence, in his defense of the [[File:Jack.png]] [[Jacobinism|French Revolution]], that freedom is the precondition for acquiring the maturity for freedom, not a gift to be granted when such maturity is achieved. With the development of [[File:Indust.png]] [[Industrialism|industrial]] [[File:Cap.png]] [[capitalism]], a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is [[File:Libsoc.png]] [[Libertarian Socialism|libertarian socialism]] that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the [[File:Clib.png]] [[Classical Liberalism|classical liberal]] ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. In fact, on the very same assumptions that led classical liberalism to oppose the intervention of the state in social life, capitalist social relations are also intolerable. This is clear, for example, from the classic work of Humboldt, The Limits of State Action, which anticipated and perhaps inspired Mill and to which we return below. This classic of liberal thought, completed in 1792, is in its essence profoundly, though prematurely, anticapitalist. Its ideas must be attenuated beyond recognition to be transmuted into an ideology of industrial capitalism.
 
Humboldt’s vision of a society in which social fetters are replaced by social bonds and labor is freely undertaken suggests the early [[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism|Marx]], with his discussion of the “alienation of labor when work is external to the worker ... not part of his nature ... [so that] he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself ... [and is] physically exhausted and mentally debased,” alienated labor that “casts some of the workers back into a barbarous kind of work and turns others into machines,” thus depriving man of his “species character” of “free conscious activity” and “productive life.” Similarly, Marx conceives of “a new type of human being who needs his fellow-men.... [The workers’ association becomes] the real constructive effort to create the social texture of future human relations.” It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association. On the same assumptions, capitalist relations of production, wage labor, competitiveness, the ideology of “possessive individualism”—all must be regarded as fundamentally antihuman. Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
 
Rudolf Rocker describes modern anarchism as “the confluence of the two great currents which during and since the French revolution have found such characteristic expression in the intellectual life of Europe: Socialism and Liberalism.” The classical liberal ideals, he argues, were wrecked on the realities of capitalist economic forms. Anarchism is necessarily anti-capitalist in that it “opposes the exploitation of man by man.” But anarchism also opposes “the dominion of man over man.” It insists that “socialism will be free or it will not be at all. In its recognition of this lies the genuine and profound justification for the existence of anarchism.” From this point of view, anarchism may be regarded as the libertarian wing of socialism. It is in this spirit that Daniel Guérin has approached the study of anarchism in Anarchism and other works.|source=[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/noam-chomsky-on-anarchism On Anarchism]|speaker=Noam Chomsky}}
 
A similar view has been espoused by the American BreadTuber ''VaushV.''<ref>[https://twitter.com/maytoads/status/1290343782450434049 "Vaush on Marx and following theorists"], @MayToads, Twitter.com</ref> Leading to liberal socialism to be sarcastically called '''Vaushism''' within the Polcompball community.
 
{{Quote|quote=When Marx and following theorists wrote on capitalism they weren't writing 'capitalism and liberalism are worst things to ever happen to humanity, they are the greatest oppression of workers'. No. Marxism is supposed to be an extension of liberalism not a rejection of it, a true promotion of unity, fraternity, and freedom, and liberty, and shit. That's what Marxism and that's what leftism is about, it's about bringing the messaging of the liberal movement forward, to make it better, to make it get stronger, to make it true to its principles.|speaker=[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1E-JS8L0j1Ei70D9VEFrPQ Vaush]}}
 
===[[File:Cball-South Africa.png]] South Africa===
Anti-Apartheid revolutionary and South Africa's first black leader,
[[File:Mandela.png]] Nelson Mandela ideologically self-identified as a Socialist and ultimately believed in a classless society, having been influenced by [[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]]. But when in power he supported the country's [[File:Demlib.png]] liberal democratic model, while still taking strong measures to combat poverty, encourage land reform, and expanding healthcare services. He expressed desires to move to a [[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy|social-democratic]] economy but figured that it wasn't possible due to the circumstances at the time (the fall of the USSR and the ascendency of [[File:Neoliberal-icon.png]] [[neoliberalism]].)
 
===[[File:Cball-Brazil.png]] Brazil===
'''WIP'''
 
===[[File:Cball-USSR.png]] Soviet Union/[[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Russia [[File:Gorb.png]]===
Mikhail Gorbachev was the last general secretary of the USSR who oversaw the demise of the Soviet Empire. Gorbachev was a compromised general secretary who rose to power when the USSR was on the brink of collapse, already suffering economic stagnation, supply shortages, sing the mounting costs of Brezhnev’s Afghan war. In his tenure, he implemented a series of reforms, including perestroika, glasnost, new political thinking, withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the abandonment of the Brezhnev Doctrine. Much of his political career was spent trying to balance the needs of various inner-factions between hardliners, moderate/reformist communists, and nationalists. Out of desperation, and from a sheer lack of efficiency from the state-planned model, he made an attempt to reform the country that drew from the experiences of market socialist economies such as the [[File:Tito.png]] [[Titoism|SFRY]], [[File:Goulash.png]] Hungary, and [[File:Dengf.png]] [[Dengism|China]], despite his desperate attempt to re-form the soviet system, because of various complicated factors, his efforts to radically restructure the soviet system failed miserably to prevent a complete collapse of the Soviet Union.
 
The pullout of troops from Afghanistan and Eastern Europe was also mishandled. This led to the collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the Revolutions of 1989, along with the Islamist takeover of Afghanistan. In 1991, the Soviet hardliners who opposed his reforms saw his proposal to change the USSR into a confederation as undesirable and “treason.” They launched the infamous “August Coup,” which tried to restore the Soviet Empire, which effectively made Gorbachev powerless since then. This gave the rise of [[File:Yeltsin.png]] [[Kleptocracy|Boris Yeltsin]], who subsequently declared the end of the USSR, along with other separatist nationalist leaders.
 
==Variants==
===[[File:Huism.png]] Huism===
 
In the 1980s, the Chinese government countered some political prisoners convicted during the Cultural Revolution, and then opened small-scale freedom of speech. The Chinese intellectuals, represented by Wei Jingsheng, immediately carried out a lot of criticism activities against the government on the west wall of Beijing, mainly focusing on greater freedom of expression, removing official corruption, adjusting prices, and preventing inflation. However, Hu Yaobang, the implementer of the reform, was forced to resign in 1986 and then triggered a large-scale democratic movement after his death in 1989. At that time, the senior officials of the CPC Central Committee were divided into two groups, one group supported the student movement for freedom, and the other group demanded to suppress the student movement. In the end, [[File:ZhaoZiyang.png]] Zhao Ziyang, the then General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, lost Deng Xiaoping's support. Liberals in the party, such as [[File:XiZhongxun.png]] Xi Zhongxun, lost power, and many people were expelled from the top of the CPC. The democratic movement in 1989 was finally bloody suppressed. Hu Yaobang's liberalization reform, as well as Hu Yaobang's ruling ideology, is considered a kind of free socialism. However, this reform has not carried out more liberalization of the economy due to the obstructions of conservatives like [[File:CHNNeocon.png]] Chen Yun and [[File:LiPeng2.png]] Li Peng. Jiang Zemin later completed the task of economic liberalization. But at that time, the Chinese people did not live better, the problem of corruption was more serious, and the political oppression was more serious.


The term "Liberal Socialism" is also commonly used for ideologies that combine the economic systems of liberalism and socialism like [[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy|social democracy]], [[File: Dsa.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|democratic socialism]], [[File:Marketsoc.png]] [[Market Socialism|market socialism]] and [[File: Soclib.png]] [[Social Liberalism|social liberalism]].
===[[File:SDA.png]] American Social Democracy===
== History ==
'''American Social Democracy''' refers to the [[File:Cball-USA.png]] American variant of [[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy|social democracy]]. It is the [[File:LeftSocdem.png]] [[Social_Democracy#Left-Social_Democracy|left-wing version]] of social democracy which is [[File:Lpop.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism|left-populist]].
Wikipedia states that Liberal Socialism's "ideas can be traced to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill John Stuart Mill], who theorised that capitalist societies should experience a gradual process of socialisation through worker-controlled enterprises, coexisting with private enterprises."
===[[File:LeftAntiCom.png]] Left Anti-Communism===
'''Left Anti-Communism''' is the left-wing version of anti-communism that is critical of communist regimes from a left-wing point of view. Although, not all are opposed to communism, just what they see as "state capitalism". It's also used as a pejorative term for socialists that are critical of authoritarian socialism and examples of authoritarian socialism.
===[[File:Ethsoc.png]] Ethical Socialism===
'''Ethical Socialism''' is a political philosophy that appeals to socialism on ethical and moral grounds as opposed to consumeristic, economic, and egoistic grounds. It emphasizes the need for a morally conscious economy based upon the principles of altruism, cooperation, and social justice while opposing possessive individualism. Ethical socialism has some significant overlap with Christian socialism, Fabianism, guild socialism, liberal socialism, social-democratic reformism, and utopian socialism. Under the influence of politicians like Carlo Rosselli in Italy, social democrats began disassociating themselves from orthodox Marxism altogether as represented by Marxism–Leninism, embracing an ethical liberal socialism, Keynesianism, and appealing to morality rather than any consistent systematic, scientific or materialist worldview


== Tenets ==
==How to Draw==
Liberal Socialist ideology tends to support a mixed economy that consists of both private property and social ownership.
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Liberal socialism's symbol is a crossed ''hammer and quill,'' the symbol of the [[w:Czech_National_Social_Party|Czech National Social Party]] and of the [[w:Radical_Civic_Union|Radical Civic Union]] which were historically regarded as liberal socialist parties. The symbols of the hammer and quill represent solidarity between workers and clerks.


== How to Draw ==
#Draw a ball
[[File:Liberalsoc_flag.svg|thumb|220x220px]]Liberal socialism's symbol is a crossed ''hammer and quill,'' the symbol of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_National_Social_Party Czech National Social Party] which is historically regarded as liberal socialist party. The symbol of the hammer and quill represent solidarity between workers and clerks.
#Draw a red hammer and a feather crossed
# Draw a ball
#Add the eyes and you're done!
# Draw a red (#D00505) hammer and a feather crossed
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==Relations==
===Friends===


== Relations ==
*[[File:Bernst.png]] [[Reformist Marxism|Bernsteinism]] - One of my oldest friends.
===Friends===
*[[File:Civlibert.png ]] [[Civil Libertarianism]] - Hooray for human rights!
* [[File: Dsa.png]] [[Democratic Socialism]] - <s>We're lowkey the same.</s>
*[[File:Dsa.png]] [[Democratic Socialism]] [[File:Demsocstar.png]] - We're lowkey the same.
*[[File:Marketsoc.png]] [[Market Socialism]] - We are very similar with some minor differences.
*[[File:Marketsoc.png]] [[Market Socialism]] - We are very similar with some minor differences.
*[[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy]] - You are so close, just move a little further away from capitalism.
*[[File:Prog-u.png]] [[Progressivism]] - We often take a similar view of history, and tend to have a similar commitment to reform.
*[[File:Ricardosoc.png]] [[Ricardian Socialism]] - Weird friend, but I love them anyway.
*[[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy]] - You are so close, just be a lil bit more like your dad.
*[[File:Swhf.png ]] [[Democratic Socialism|Socialism with a Human Face]] - Good try buddy! To bad it didn't work out.
*[[File:Twitter.png]] [[Ochlocracy|Twitterism]] - A lot of your users are literally me!
*[[File:BrazilPT.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism]] - LULALÁ 2022 QUE O PT GOVERNE MEU PAÍS PRA SEMPRE!


===Frenemies===
===Frenemies===
*[[File: Soclib.png]] [[Social Liberalism]] - I like your liberal principles and focus on welfare but you focus too much on preserving capitalism.
 
* [[File: Soc.png]] [[Socialism]] - I wish you would realize socialism needs liberalism.
*[[File:Soclib.png]] [[Social Liberalism]] - I like your liberal principles and focus on welfare but you focus too much on preserving capitalism. Mill was still based though, and we sometimes still overlap in the modern day, so I definitely don't hate you.
*[[File: Libsoc.png]] [[Libertarian Socialism]] - We are similar, you just take things a bit too far.
*[[File:Lib.png]] [[Liberalism]] - Great dad, but why capitalism?
*[[File: Consocf.png]] [[Conservative Socialism]] - I like the socialism, the conservatism, not so much.
*[[File:Socliber.png]] [[Social Libertarianism]] - Civic rights, welfare, and regulation is good and all, but you're still far too capitalist.
*[[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]] - Markets are cool, but liberalism is not inherently capitalist, hope you can understand that.
*[[File:Soc-h.png]] [[Socialism]] - And I wish you would realize socialism also needs liberalism.
*[[File:Libsoc.png]] [[Libertarian Socialism]] - We are similar; you just take things a bit too far.
*[[File:Consocf.png]] [[Conservative Socialism]] - I like socialism, but conservatism, not so much.
*[[File:Fabian.png]] [[Fabian Socialism]] - I'm glad you like my ideas, but what's with the Eugenics?
*[[File:Tito.png]] [[Titoism]] - Still too authoritarian, but you're pretty tolerable when compared to other AuthLefts. <small>Did you really have to lock up Djilas though?</small>
*[[File:Marxfem.png]] [[Marxist Feminism]] - I like your social justice and socialism, but you are too communist and friendly with [[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|tankies]].
*[[File:Chomsky.png]] [[Libertarian Socialism|Chomskyism]] - Idk man, you said some pretty nice things about me, but your tendency to downplay the crimes of authoritarian dictators just because they don't like the US is usually the kind of stuff I'd expect from tankies rather than a self-described left-libertarian, let alone an anarchist.
*[[File:Pinkcap.png]] [[Pink Capitalism]] - Not a big fan of capitalism, but I do like your marketing.
*[[File:Necon.png]] [[Neoconservatism]] - Murderous and racist swine! But Vaush and Kwaśniewski support military interventions. <s>Hmm, maybe Trotsky was right all along?</s>
*[[File:Capcom.png]] [[Capitalist Communism]] - Me but more extreme ?


===Enemies===
===Enemies===
* [[File: ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism]] - REEEEE, out of here illiberal authoritarian!
*[[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism]] - Cringe totalitarianism and red fascist/state capitalist in denial. <s>At least he funded ANC</s>
*[[File: Nazi.png]] [[National Socialism]] - You are not a socialist at all, you are just an illiberal authoritarian who's also racist!
*[[File:Nazi.png]] [[Nazism]] - You are not a socialist at all, you are just an [[File:Sec.png]] [[Authoritarianism|illiberal authoritarian]] who's also racist!
*[[File:Conserv.png]] [[Conservatism]] - Almost my complete opposite!
*[[File:Conserv.png]] [[Conservatism]] - Almost my complete opposite!
*[[File:Fash.png]] [[Fascism]]- Literally my complete opposite!
*[[File:Plcn2.png]] [[Paleoconservatism]] and [[File:Tradcon.png]] [[Classical Conservatism]] - Your time is up, boomers!
*[[File:Hcon.png]] [[Homoconservatism]] - Why do you support conservative ideas? You know they will come back to bite you.
*[[File:Confem.png]] [[Conservative Feminism]] - Maybe I should stay quiet...
*[[File:Ethno.png]] [[Ethnocracy]] [[File:Cball-South_Africa_alt.png]][[File:NasionaleParty(Apartheid).png]] - Haha Apartheid go bye bye!
*[[File:Thatcher.png]] [[Neoliberalism|Thatcherism]] - It doesn't matter if you are a liberal. You called Mandela's political party a "terrorist organisation" and refused to impose sanctions on apartheid!
*[[File:Libfem.png]] [[Liberal Feminism]] and [[File:Libertfem.png]] [[Libertarian Feminism]] - Female drone pilots and CEOs don't solve anything
*[[File:Altr.png]] [[Alt-Right]] - He is a good representation of everything that I oppose.
*[[File:Obj.png]] [[Objectivism]] - The fuck are you?!?
*[[File:EFF.png]] [[Black Nationalism|Malemaism]] - Get booted from ANC!
*[[File:Baath.png]] [[Ba'athism]] - Bush, Blair, wait for me...
*[[File:Wałęsa.png]] [[Neoliberalism|Wałęsaism]] - At least I'm the President now.
*[[File:Altl.png]] [[Alt-Lite|Crowderism]] - Hitler was not me!
*[[File:Dengf.png]] [[Dengism]] - Let me protest you damn it!
==Further Information==
For overlapping ideologies see:
<center><small>[[File:Soc-h.png]][[Socialism]], [[File:Soclib.png]][[Social Liberalism]], [[File:Lib.png]][[Liberalism]], [[File:Socdem.png]][[Social Democracy]], [[File:Dsa.png]][[Democratic Socialism]], [[File:Bernst.png]][[Reformist Marxism|Bernsteinism]],<br>[[File:Marketsoc.png]][[Market Socialism]], [[File:Radlib.png]][[Radicalism]], [[File:Jack.png]][[Jacobinism]], [[File:Keynes.png]][[Keynesian School]]</small></center>
===Literature===
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275419 Equality] by [[File:Christsoc.png]] [[Christian Socialism|Henry Richard Tawney]]
*[https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/wilshire-fabian-essays-in-socialism Fabian Essays in Socialism] by [[File:Fabian.png]] [[Fabian Socialism|The Fabian Society]]
*[https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bernstein/works/1899/evsoc/index.htm Evolutionary Socialism] by [[File:Bernstein.png]] [[Reformist Marxism|Eduard Bernstein]]
*[https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/mill/liberty.pdf On Liberty], [https://eet.pixel-online.org/files/etranslation/original/Mill,%20Principles%20of%20Political%20Economy.pdf Principles of Political Economy] and [https://www.laits.utexas.edu/poltheory/jsmill/cos/cos.int.html On socialism] by [[File:Mill.png]] [[Civil Libertarianism|John Stuart Mill]]
*[https://giuseppecapograssi.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/rawls99.pdf A Theory of Justice] by [[File:Rawls.png]] [[Social Liberalism|John Rawls]]
*[https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/125515/1366_KeynesTheoryofEmployment.pdf The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money] by [[File:Keynes.png]] [[Keynesian School|John Maynard Keynes]]
*[http://196.188.170.250:8080/jspui/bitstream/123456789/2149/1/Keynes%20Against%20Capitalism_%20His%20Economic%20Case%20for%20Liberal%20Socialism%20%282019%2C%20Routledge%29%20-%20libgen.lc.pdf Keynes Against Capitalism: His Economic Case for Liberal Socialism] by [[File:Postkeynes.png]] [[Keynesian School|James Crotty]]
*[https://books.google.com/books/about/Liberal_Socialism.html?id=V5srDgAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description Liberal Socialism] by [[File:Liberalsoc.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|Carlo Rosselli]]
===Videos===
*[https://youtu.be/-vfx1kQlmOk Breadtube vs Economics #1: Response to Philosophy Tube on Housing] by [[File:Socgeo.png]] [[Social Georgism|Unlearning Economics]]
*[https://youtu.be/nP95Frc0v4k How Privatisation Fails: Railways] by [[File:BreadTube.png]] [[Progressivism|Shaun]]
*[https://youtu.be/5jw1n9fH-kg I Ruin Apartheid by Making it Political] by [[File:BreadTube.png]] [[Progressivism|Step Back]]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CtoHYxnWjE Breadtubers Are Crypto-Tankies] by [[File:Nalib.png]] [[National Liberalism|ShortFatOtaku]]
===Articles===
*[https://jacobin.com/2016/04/jonathan-chait-nymag-marxism-democratic-socialists Liberalism’s Crisis, Socialism’s Promise] by [[File:Dsa.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|Joseph M. Schwartz]]
*[https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/10/socialism-liberalism-marx Socialists Don't Want to Destroy Liberalism. We Want to Go Beyond It.] by [[File:ProgSoc.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|Matt McManus]]
*[https://jacobin.com/2022/11/raymond-geuss-liberalism-philosophy-politics We Should Go Beyond Liberalism, Not Abandon It] by [[File:ProgSoc.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|Matt McManus]]
*[https://medium.com/@wendycockcroft/what-is-a-liberal-socialist-c6de6584f304 What is a "Liberal Socialist"?] by Wendy Cockcroft
*[https://www.unz.com/print/Encounter-1978oct-00046/ How to be a Conservative-Liberal-Socialist] by Leszek Kołakowski
*[https://www.liberalcurrents.com/at-the-socialist-liberal-nexus/ At the Liberal-Socialist Nexus] by Paul Crider
*[https://www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-liberal-socialism/ What is Liberal Socialism?] by Matthew McManus
===Wikipedia===
*[[w:Liberal_socialism|Liberal Socialism]] [[File:Liberalsoc.png]]
*[[w:Ethical_socialism|Ethical Socialism]] [[File:Ethsoc.png]]
*[[w:BreadTube|BreadTube]] [[File:BreadTube.png]]
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*[[File:Cball-UK.png]] [[w:John_Stuart_Mill|John Stuart Mill]] [[File:Mill.png]]
*[[File:Cball-UK.png]] [[w:John_Maynard_Keynes|John Maynard Keynes]] [[File:Keynes.png]]
*[[File:Cball-UK.png]] [[w:Bertrand_Russell|Bertrand Russell]] [[File:Guildsoc.png]]
*[[File:Cball-UK.png]] [[w:R._H._Tawney|R. H. Tawney]] [[File:Ethsoc.png]]
*[[File:Cball-AustriaHungary.png]] [[w:Karl_Polanyi|Karl Polanyi]] [[File:Polanyi.png]]
*[[File:Cball-Germany.png]] [[w:Eduard_Bernstein|Eduard Bernstein]] [[File:Bernstein.png]]
*[[File:Cball-Italy.png]] [[w:Carlo_Rosselli|Carlo Rosselli]] [[File:Demsocstar.png]]
*[[File:Cball-US.png]] [[w:John_Rawls|John Rawls]] [[File:Soclib.png]]
*[[File:Cball-South Africa.png]] [[w:Nelson_Mandela|Nelson Mandela]] [[File:Mandela.png]]
*[[File:Cball-Russia.png]] [[w:Mikhail_Gorbachev|Mikhail Gorbachev]] [[File:Gorb.png]]
*[[File:Cball-Russia.png]] [[w:Alexander_Kerensky|Alexander Kerensky]] [[File:Kerensky.png]]
*[[File:Cball-US.png]] [[w:Cornel_West|Cornel West]] [[File:Socdem.png]]
*[[File:Cball-US.png]] [[w:Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez|Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]] [[File:AOC.png]]
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*[[File:Cball-South_Africa.png]] [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_National_Congress African National Congress] [[File:ANC-icon.png]]
*[[File:Cball-US.png]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Socialists_of_America Democratic Socialists of America] [[File:Dsa.png]]
*[[File:Cball-Brazil.png]] [[w:Workers%27_Party_(Brazil)|Workers' Party]] [[File:BrazilPT.png]]
*[[File:Cball-India.png]] [[w:Trinamool Congress|All India Trinamool Congress]] [[File:Lpop.png]]
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*[https://www.reddit.com/r/BreadTube/ r/BreadTube] [[File:BreadTube.png]]


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For overlapping political theory see:
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=== Literature ===


* [https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/wilshire-fabian-essays-in-socialism Fabian Essays in Socialism] by The Fabian Society
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* [https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bernstein/works/1899/evsoc/index.htm Evolutionary Socialism] by Eduard Bernstein
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* [https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/mill/liberty.pdf On Liberty] by John Stuart Mill
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*[https://philosophyintrocourse.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/rawls-theory-of-justice.pdf A Theory of Justice] by John Rawls
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* [https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/10/socialism-liberalism-marx Socialists Don't Want to Destroy Liberalism. We Want to Go Beyond It.] by Matt McManus
===Comics===
* [https://medium.com/@wendycockcroft/what-is-a-liberal-socialist-c6de6584f304 What is a "Liberal Socialist"?] by Wendy Cockcroft
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Not to be confused with Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarian Socialism or Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Liberalism.

Liberal Socialism (Libsoc) is an economically centre-left to left-wing political theory and ideology that believes that Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Socialism is compatible with Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Liberalism. There is no one conception of what Liberal Socialism is, but rather, many different (sometimes contradictory) definitions.

Conceptions

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination As Liberal Mixed EconomyError creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination

Liberal Socialism can sometimes mean liberalism which operates through a robust mixed economy, without intentions of transferring to a fully socialist system. This often pans out as a slightly more left wing version of what is otherwise indistinguishable from Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Liberalism or Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Democracy.

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationAs Socialist Liberal DemocracyError creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination

Alternatively, Liberal Socialism can mean a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Liberal Democracy that would have a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Market Socialist economy, or a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Democratic Socialist society that would have free markets, minimal regulations, and very few (if any) planning.

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationAs Liberal/Socialist Reform

Another way of looking at liberal socialism is as an attempt to reform a liberal economy into a fully socialist one, or alternatively, as the liberalization of a centralized Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination State Socialist government.

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationAs HistoriographyError creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination

Liberal Socialism can be seen as a view of history as going from Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Feudalism to Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Liberalism, and then Finally to Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Socialism. This conception tends to view Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Socialism as the best way carry on the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Classical Liberal principles of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Equality and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Liberty.

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationLiberalism as Socialism

Liberal socialism can also be seen as using the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Liberal philosophy that the liberty of man should not be offended and that a person should not be treated as means but as ends, extended to the economy, combined to prove socialist standpoints.

History

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Main article: Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Bernsteinism

In Germany, liberal socialist ideals can be said to originate with the development of revisionist Marxism of Eduard Bernstein who defined the term 'socialism' as 'Organised Liberalism'.

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In Great Britain, the development of Liberal Socialism can be traced back to a number of sources of liberal and socialist origin. Liberal Socialism of liberal origin can be found in the theories of the political economist John Stuart Mill, who greatly influenced the political ideology of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Liberalism which is a type of liberalism that believes that economic freedom can be only achieved through an extensive social state. Although, Mill is noted as going a step further, favoring collectivized workplaces. He theorized that Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination capitalist societies shall experience a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination gradual process of socialization with worker cooperatives slowly replacing private enterprises.

John Mill's liberal socialism did not completely abolish capitalism and replace it with socialism, but it supported a mixed economy based on market socialism, including social ownership of private property and capital. Liberal socialists generally do not support centralism or socialism in the form of the state, but support the realization of property collectivization through market socialism of individual workers' cooperatives. This form of workers' community cooperatives can be seen as a manifestation of Liberalism: everyone can join according to their own free will, but if it is not conducive to their own self-development, individuals can leave at any time. Liberal socialists believe that the introduction of collective property eliminates the dependence on workers and employers, thus bringing real freedom to workers. English liberal socialists believe that freedom and equality are mutually compatible and interdependent, and regard the material inequality produced by capitalism as one of the main reasons for the increasingly lack of freedom. Free socialists also generally support the free market, and believe that market monopoly is the inevitable result of capitalism, and only through market socialism can the real free market be achieved.

Liberal socialism of socialist origin in Britain can be found in the theories of the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Christian Socialist historian and activist Richard Henry Tawney, who developed a theory of 'Ethical Socialism'. Ethical socialism as a movement saw to justify socialism on ethical and moral grounds, as opposed to material grounds.

Tawney later joined, influenced, and became an executive of the socialist think tank of the Fabian Society which was a group that wanted to achieve Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Socialism through Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination reformist means in Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination democracies (Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Democratic Socialism.) The ideology of the Fabian Society (Fabianism) may, in turn, be characterized as a form of liberal socialism.

The term 'Liberal Socialism' was later used by the British economist Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationJohn Maynard Keynes to describe his political ideology:[3]


The question is whether we are prepared to move out of the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationnineteen-century laissez-faire state into an era of liberal socialism, by which I mean a system where we can act as an organized community for common purposes and to promote economic and social justice, whilst respecting and protecting the individual – his freedom of choice, his faith, his mind and its expression, his enterprise, and his property.


Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Italy

The term 'Liberal Socialism' was popularised by the Jewish-Italian political leader Carlo Rosselli who was influenced both by Eduard Bernstein and by the British Labour movement. Carlo Rosselli rejected the political theories of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Marx and favoured Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination non-Marxist socialism. He believed that Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination liberal democracy is not just important for socialist construction, but also for its realization. Additionally, Carlo Rosseli founded Justice and Liberty (Italian: Giustizia e Libertà) which was a resistance movement against the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Fascist government of Italy.


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In the United States, the term 'Liberal Socialism' was used by the political theorist John Rawls to describe his political ideology.

In the United States a type of Liberal Socialism was espoused by the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination anarcho-syndicalist thinker Noam Chomsky. In his book On Anarchism claiming that Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination libertarian socialism to be conclusion of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination classical liberal principles:[4]


These ideas grow out of the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Enlightenment Thought; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Humboldt’s Limits of State Action, Kant’s insistence, in his defense of the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination French Revolution, that freedom is the precondition for acquiring the maturity for freedom, not a gift to be granted when such maturity is achieved. With the development of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination industrial Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. In fact, on the very same assumptions that led classical liberalism to oppose the intervention of the state in social life, capitalist social relations are also intolerable. This is clear, for example, from the classic work of Humboldt, The Limits of State Action, which anticipated and perhaps inspired Mill and to which we return below. This classic of liberal thought, completed in 1792, is in its essence profoundly, though prematurely, anticapitalist. Its ideas must be attenuated beyond recognition to be transmuted into an ideology of industrial capitalism.

Humboldt’s vision of a society in which social fetters are replaced by social bonds and labor is freely undertaken suggests the early Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Marx, with his discussion of the “alienation of labor when work is external to the worker ... not part of his nature ... [so that] he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself ... [and is] physically exhausted and mentally debased,” alienated labor that “casts some of the workers back into a barbarous kind of work and turns others into machines,” thus depriving man of his “species character” of “free conscious activity” and “productive life.” Similarly, Marx conceives of “a new type of human being who needs his fellow-men.... [The workers’ association becomes] the real constructive effort to create the social texture of future human relations.” It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association. On the same assumptions, capitalist relations of production, wage labor, competitiveness, the ideology of “possessive individualism”—all must be regarded as fundamentally antihuman. Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

Rudolf Rocker describes modern anarchism as “the confluence of the two great currents which during and since the French revolution have found such characteristic expression in the intellectual life of Europe: Socialism and Liberalism.” The classical liberal ideals, he argues, were wrecked on the realities of capitalist economic forms. Anarchism is necessarily anti-capitalist in that it “opposes the exploitation of man by man.” But anarchism also opposes “the dominion of man over man.” It insists that “socialism will be free or it will not be at all. In its recognition of this lies the genuine and profound justification for the existence of anarchism.” From this point of view, anarchism may be regarded as the libertarian wing of socialism. It is in this spirit that Daniel Guérin has approached the study of anarchism in Anarchism and other works.

Noam Chomsky, On Anarchism


A similar view has been espoused by the American BreadTuber VaushV.[5] Leading to liberal socialism to be sarcastically called Vaushism within the Polcompball community.


When Marx and following theorists wrote on capitalism they weren't writing 'capitalism and liberalism are worst things to ever happen to humanity, they are the greatest oppression of workers'. No. Marxism is supposed to be an extension of liberalism not a rejection of it, a true promotion of unity, fraternity, and freedom, and liberty, and shit. That's what Marxism and that's what leftism is about, it's about bringing the messaging of the liberal movement forward, to make it better, to make it get stronger, to make it true to its principles.


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Anti-Apartheid revolutionary and South Africa's first black leader, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Nelson Mandela ideologically self-identified as a Socialist and ultimately believed in a classless society, having been influenced by Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Marxism. But when in power he supported the country's Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination liberal democratic model, while still taking strong measures to combat poverty, encourage land reform, and expanding healthcare services. He expressed desires to move to a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination social-democratic economy but figured that it wasn't possible due to the circumstances at the time (the fall of the USSR and the ascendency of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination neoliberalism.)

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WIP

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Soviet Union/Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Russia Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination

Mikhail Gorbachev was the last general secretary of the USSR who oversaw the demise of the Soviet Empire. Gorbachev was a compromised general secretary who rose to power when the USSR was on the brink of collapse, already suffering economic stagnation, supply shortages, sing the mounting costs of Brezhnev’s Afghan war. In his tenure, he implemented a series of reforms, including perestroika, glasnost, new political thinking, withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the abandonment of the Brezhnev Doctrine. Much of his political career was spent trying to balance the needs of various inner-factions between hardliners, moderate/reformist communists, and nationalists. Out of desperation, and from a sheer lack of efficiency from the state-planned model, he made an attempt to reform the country that drew from the experiences of market socialist economies such as the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination SFRY, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Hungary, and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination China, despite his desperate attempt to re-form the soviet system, because of various complicated factors, his efforts to radically restructure the soviet system failed miserably to prevent a complete collapse of the Soviet Union.

The pullout of troops from Afghanistan and Eastern Europe was also mishandled. This led to the collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the Revolutions of 1989, along with the Islamist takeover of Afghanistan. In 1991, the Soviet hardliners who opposed his reforms saw his proposal to change the USSR into a confederation as undesirable and “treason.” They launched the infamous “August Coup,” which tried to restore the Soviet Empire, which effectively made Gorbachev powerless since then. This gave the rise of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Boris Yeltsin, who subsequently declared the end of the USSR, along with other separatist nationalist leaders.

Variants

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Huism

In the 1980s, the Chinese government countered some political prisoners convicted during the Cultural Revolution, and then opened small-scale freedom of speech. The Chinese intellectuals, represented by Wei Jingsheng, immediately carried out a lot of criticism activities against the government on the west wall of Beijing, mainly focusing on greater freedom of expression, removing official corruption, adjusting prices, and preventing inflation. However, Hu Yaobang, the implementer of the reform, was forced to resign in 1986 and then triggered a large-scale democratic movement after his death in 1989. At that time, the senior officials of the CPC Central Committee were divided into two groups, one group supported the student movement for freedom, and the other group demanded to suppress the student movement. In the end, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Zhao Ziyang, the then General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, lost Deng Xiaoping's support. Liberals in the party, such as Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Xi Zhongxun, lost power, and many people were expelled from the top of the CPC. The democratic movement in 1989 was finally bloody suppressed. Hu Yaobang's liberalization reform, as well as Hu Yaobang's ruling ideology, is considered a kind of free socialism. However, this reform has not carried out more liberalization of the economy due to the obstructions of conservatives like Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Chen Yun and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Li Peng. Jiang Zemin later completed the task of economic liberalization. But at that time, the Chinese people did not live better, the problem of corruption was more serious, and the political oppression was more serious.

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination American Social Democracy

American Social Democracy refers to the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination American variant of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination social democracy. It is the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination left-wing version of social democracy which is Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination left-populist.

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Left Anti-Communism

Left Anti-Communism is the left-wing version of anti-communism that is critical of communist regimes from a left-wing point of view. Although, not all are opposed to communism, just what they see as "state capitalism". It's also used as a pejorative term for socialists that are critical of authoritarian socialism and examples of authoritarian socialism.

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Ethical Socialism

Ethical Socialism is a political philosophy that appeals to socialism on ethical and moral grounds as opposed to consumeristic, economic, and egoistic grounds. It emphasizes the need for a morally conscious economy based upon the principles of altruism, cooperation, and social justice while opposing possessive individualism. Ethical socialism has some significant overlap with Christian socialism, Fabianism, guild socialism, liberal socialism, social-democratic reformism, and utopian socialism. Under the influence of politicians like Carlo Rosselli in Italy, social democrats began disassociating themselves from orthodox Marxism altogether as represented by Marxism–Leninism, embracing an ethical liberal socialism, Keynesianism, and appealing to morality rather than any consistent systematic, scientific or materialist worldview

How to Draw

Flag of Liberal Socialism

Liberal socialism's symbol is a crossed hammer and quill, the symbol of the Czech National Social Party and of the Radical Civic Union which were historically regarded as liberal socialist parties. The symbols of the hammer and quill represent solidarity between workers and clerks.

  1. Draw a ball
  2. Draw a red hammer and a feather crossed
  3. Add the eyes and you're done!
Color Name HEX RGB
Red #D00505 208, 5, 5
White #FFFFFF 255, 255, 255

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Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationSocialism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationSocial Liberalism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationLiberalism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationSocial Democracy, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationDemocratic Socialism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationBernsteinism,
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationMarket Socialism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationRadicalism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationJacobinism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationKeynesian School

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  1. ↑ "Decreto Berlusconi", Italian Wikipedia.
  2. ↑ "Stratocracy in USSR", Wikipedia.org.
  3. ↑ "Keynes Against Capitalism: His Economic Case for Liberal Socialism" by James Crotty.
  4. ↑ "On Anarchism", p. 14. Noam Chomsky.
  5. ↑ "Vaush on Marx and following theorists", @MayToads, Twitter.com

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