Thinkers in both “camps” have not only challenged the underlying idea of the split but created theory that unified both liberal and socialist principles.
Eric Schliesser is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. He blogs regularly at digressionsimpressions.substack.com. He is a Visiting Faculty Fellow at The Murphy Institute of Tulane University for 2025-2026.
From the beginning, liberals have felt the need to promote the development and flourishing of human nature in light of the good even if they disagreed about what it might be.
