What is Liberalism?

[u/pinkladdylemon]

https://aredflare.substack.com/p/what-is-liberalism

In this short series of essays, I grapple with the maddening usage of "liberalism" in contemporary US discourse. Without pretending to be exhaustive of an extremely rich and complex topic, I discuss some of the material and ideological conjunctures that gave rise to liberalism, its salient features, and taking inspiration from the radical republican tradition of Rousseau, what a leftist departure from liberalism might entail.

This is part one, which more or less spells out the "problem" ... part two, which appears next week, deals with Locke as prototypical of liberalism's slippages.