Liberalismus: Wenn Freiheit Sich Selbst Zerstört
In the past decade, liberalism has taken a beating from both sides of the political spectrum. Its critics to the left view its measured gradualism as incommensurate to the present’s multiple emergencies: climate change, inequality, the rise of an ethno-nationalist right. Conservatives, by contrast, paint liberalism as a cultural leviathan that has ... See more
Populist movements — on both the right and left — argue that liberalism has failed to deliver on its lofty ideals. Instead of liberty, equality, and prosperity, it has brought about widening inequality, the breakdown of traditional communities, and unchecked power for an elite class that is increasingly detached from ordinary people.
Dylan Evans • Marx Saw It Coming
Contemporary liberalism erodes the liberal tradition in two ways. First, it promotes ever-increasing negative liberty – freedom from restrictions except the law and private conscience – to the point where it flips over into the tyranny of individual choice abstracted from any relational constraints of family, community or nature.