Our Publications Support our Work Donate to support our work and help build the struggle for socialism. Our Branches Browse our Publications Liberation Newspaper, Liberation School, Breaking the Chains and PSL books. A socialist society embodying an ethics of cooperative, reciprocal self-realization would realize liberty and equality much more fully than is possible in liberal society. Our Program Get in Touch Our party is growing Find a branch near you and get in touch with us. Further, ideals of liberty and equality are more suitably grounded in a view of humans as irreducibly social beings rather than in liberalism's radically individualist ontology. The very universalism of these principles generates a dynamic of struggle that tends to outrun the structural limits of liberal capitalism. As Etienne Balibar argues, liberalism's core normative commitments-equality and liberty-exist in a state of tension with their supposed institutionalization in the structures of liberal society. Liberalism, in all its tepid varieties, is a political system that assumes an economy is organized under some capitalist model socialism, since it is not a. In forcing liberalism forward in such a way, socialists push liberalism beyond itself.
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Socialism draws on the normative principles that drove the bourgeois revolutions and which liberal society professes to embody, and demands that these ideals are more fully realized. The idea of liberal socialism has been bandied about for many years, with figures like John Stuart Mill and John Dewey thinking through how to establish greater. Socialism is best regarded as the radicalization and transcendence of liberalism. Socialism and Liberation in the United States is a handbook for understanding the world we live in, and a guide on how to make meaningful change based on workers’ power over the corporate elite and their capitalist system of exploitation.It outlines the basic political and ideological positions of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a revolutionary Marxist party in the United States.