Very happy to see Jacobin running a piece on how the liberals aren't the enemy. It seems in the spirit of the liberal socialism of Carlo Rossi.
The article is short on specifics, but that's probably for the best. I tend to think of this project as one of mutual, suspicious recognition, where one ensemble of *mostly* acceptable policies encounters the other ensemble of mostly tolerable policies in legislative compromise.
Much of the progress in forming a liberal-socialist coalition on specific policy areas can come from socialists and liberals reaching the same reforms but formulating them in their own respective rhetoric. And possibly gaining greater appreciation for the resources of the other.
But yeah this should really be read in conjunction with my own case for rapprochement between liberals and socialists. liberalcurrents.com/at-the-sociali…
Some grafs grasping toward coalition.
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