Illiberal Socialism
Illiberal Socialism
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非自由社会主义
DOI:
10.5840/soctheorpract201440327
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
Robert S. Taylor
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作者:
Robert S. Taylor
: Is “liberal socialism” an oxymoron? Not quite, but I will demonstrate here that it is a much more unstable and uncommon hybrid than scholars had previously thought and that almost all liberals should reject socialism, even in its most attractive form. More specifically, I will show that three leading varieties of liberalism—neutralist, plural-perfectionist, and deliberative-democratic—are incompatible with even a moderate form of socialism, viz., associational market socialism. My paper will also cast grave doubt on Rawls’s belief that justice as fairness is consistent with liberal socialism. psychological in a well-functioning democracy. The first is what Mill called an “active character”—the sense that social arrangements are malleable and subject to improvement, and that one’s own efforts can contribute to their improvement. The second is a sense of the common good—the capacity to judge in terms of the common good, and an effective desire to act on such judgments. The psychological support argument holds that the extension of self-government into the traditionally undemocratic sphere of work contributes to both the formation of an active character and to the development of a sense of the common good, and thus contributes to a more fully democratic state. 60