Thinkers in both “camps” have not only challenged the underlying idea of the split but created theory that unified both liberal and socialist principles.
Big bureaucracies, powerful parties, and other supposed bogeymen aren’t unique to the American political scene—they have counterparts in peer democratic countries. Both here in the third episode of The Liberal Currents Podcast (its real name) and in a recent essay, Adam Gurri argues that contemporaneous development of similar features in different polities indicates that comparative analysis should be central to assessments of both American history and potential solutions for today’s problems.
Thinkers in both “camps” have not only challenged the underlying idea of the split but created theory that unified both liberal and socialist principles.
