Liberal Socialism 

By Kevin A. Carson

A new C4SS study by Kevin Carson (online pdf).

The biggest challenge facing a defense of liberal socialism is the viscerally
negative reaction it evokes from major segments of both right and left as, in the words of Matthew McManus, a “perceived oxymoron…” For some parts of the left, perhaps most egregiously among the subset of Marxist-Leninists known by their adversaries as tankies, “liberal” is the ultimate pejorative.