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Is Socialism Liberal?: Democracy and French Socialist Ideas
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 54, Number 2, Spring 2007 (whole No. 227)
- pp. 77-81
- 10.1353/dss.2007.0070
- Article
- Additional Information
Arguments about the intellectual relationship between socialism and liberalism (understood in the European sense) are probably familiar to most left-wing Americans. To left-wing Europeans, and for the French in particular, it's a difficult matter. The idea that there is a positive relation between socialist and liberal concepts is scandalous in some quarters. Liberals are viewed by them as class enemies and false friends who threaten socialist integrity.