In this setting, liberals face a conundrum. How far should they maintain traditional liberal ideals, and how far should they move towards non-liberal, and potentially illiberal, ideologies if these seem more promising for the purposes of social change?
I’m an outsider because I’m a European who has studied politics, but I’m pretty far left and consider myself rather liberal.
I don’t believe in strong private property rights, and I consider liberal market economies to be complete failures. But I am a strong believer in political equality, consent of the governed, human rights, rule of law, secularism, and freedom of speech/press/assembly/religion.
It’s not primarily a theory of how to organize our economy. Neoliberalism fucking sucks.
To me, values like human rights and political equality cannot be guaranteed without heavy redistribution and some form of socialism.