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Common Origins, Different Paths

Common Origins, Different Paths LIBERALISM AND THE LEFT: FONER/7 different things when they are discussing liberalism. But this very fact may obscure the important historical point that liberalism and radicalism, or liberalism and the left, have common historical origins. In the late eighteenth century, in the Age of Revolution, the roots of modern liberalism and modern socialism can be found in the movements to dismantle privilege, hierarchy, monarchy, and aristocratic power. As social movements, both liberalism and the left originated in the egalitarian fervor of the age of the American and French revolutions. And this overlapping history of liberalism and the left (or socialism) can be traced into the twentieth century. Even in the Progressive era, so-called “new liberals” like T. H. Green in England, or John Dewey and other progressive thinkers in the United States, sought to find common ground between socialism and liberalism, challenging the distribution of economic resources while insisting that the notion of the state as the primary threat to individual liberty was now outmoded and that the major danger to the rights of the liberal individual lay in concentrated corporate power. And on that ground, liberals and socialists could and did make common efforts in Progressive America. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Radical History Review Duke University Press

Common Origins, Different Paths

Radical History Review , Volume 1998 (71) – Apr 1, 1998

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 1998 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc.
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0163-6545
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1534-1453
DOI
10.1215/01636545-1998-71-6
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LIBERALISM AND THE LEFT: FONER/7 different things when they are discussing liberalism. But this very fact may obscure the important historical point that liberalism and radicalism, or liberalism and the left, have common historical origins. In the late eighteenth century, in the Age of Revolution, the roots of modern liberalism and modern socialism can be found in the movements to dismantle privilege, hierarchy, monarchy, and aristocratic power. As social movements, both liberalism and the left originated in the egalitarian fervor of the age of the American and French revolutions. And this overlapping history of liberalism and the left (or socialism) can be traced into the twentieth century. Even in the Progressive era, so-called “new liberals” like T. H. Green in England, or John Dewey and other progressive thinkers in the United States, sought to find common ground between socialism and liberalism, challenging the distribution of economic resources while insisting that the notion of the state as the primary threat to individual liberty was now outmoded and that the major danger to the rights of the liberal individual lay in concentrated corporate power. And on that ground, liberals and socialists could and did make common efforts in Progressive America.

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Published: Apr 1, 1998

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