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Matt McManus

@mattpolprof.bsky.social

Assistant Professor at Spelman College. Author of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism and other books.

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Jed Davis 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸@xlerb.bsky.social · 19h ago

Ah. “The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World”, not to be confused with “The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado” (which entered my to-read pile during my Colorado Era and remains there)

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 19h ago

"One of the most laudatory things about 'The Blueprint' is how thoroughly and seriously it responds to objections—and not just any objections, but those offered by the best critics of socialism ranging from Ludwig von Mises to F. A. Hayek to Robert Nozick." www.liberalcurrents.com/democratic-s...

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 19h ago

"One of the most laudatory things about 'The Blueprint' is how thoroughly and seriously it responds to objections—and not just any objections, but those offered by the best critics of socialism ranging from Ludwig von Mises to F. A. Hayek to Robert Nozick." www.liberalcurrents.com/democratic-s...

Democratic Socialism Gets Serious

"The Blueprint" demonstrates how the new generation of democratic socialists are providing real, practical proposals for economic transformation.

liberalcurrents.com

El Pensador Sereno@elpensadorsereno.bsky.social · yesterday

"Donde los socialistas a estas alturas han aceptado errores y críticas, aprendido de ellos, y crecido, sus críticos hoy parecen empeñados en insistir que cada Zohran Mamdani debe ser en secreto Josef Stalin, o al menos Ellsworth Toohey."

Matt McManus@mattpolprof.bsky.social · yesterday

My long review of "The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World" for @liberalcurrents.com. Title is pretty self-explanatory www.liberalcurrents.com/democratic-s...

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · yesterday

"Critics tend to think that socialism can only ever mean one thing—a command economy with an authoritarian state—while granting that liberalism and capitalism can assume many diverse forms… For critics and even some extremely online tankies, socialism only ever was and will be the Soviet Union."

Democratic Socialism Gets Serious

"The Blueprint" demonstrates how the new generation of democratic socialists are providing real, practical proposals for economic transformation.

liberalcurrents.com

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · yesterday

"Marx once famously quipped that he wasn’t in the business of writing recipe books for the cookshops of the future. … Beggs, Burgis and Sunkara feel it’s the responsibility of democratic socialists to explain what their new society will look like and how it will be an improvement on the status quo."

Democratic Socialism Gets Serious

"The Blueprint" demonstrates how the new generation of democratic socialists are providing real, practical proposals for economic transformation.

liberalcurrents.com

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · yesterday

“Democratic firms would give workers far more of a say in how the workplace is run. Management and administrative structures would be chosen directly by employees through democratic processes, making both responsive to workers’ interests.” www.liberalcurrents.com/democratic-s...

Democratic Socialism Gets Serious

"The Blueprint" demonstrates how the new generation of democratic socialists are providing real, practical proposals for economic transformation.

liberalcurrents.com

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · yesterday

“From John Stuart Mill in the 19th century onwards to contemporary calls for Medicare for all, there is a longstanding strand of liberal thought that recommends the state provide generous benefits to citizens. The Blueprint seems to lean into that connection” www.liberalcurrents.com/democratic-s...

Democratic Socialism Gets Serious

"The Blueprint" demonstrates how the new generation of democratic socialists are providing real, practical proposals for economic transformation.

liberalcurrents.com

Indiscreet Function@homotopic.bsky.social · yesterday

In my view, socialists who aspire to this kind of worker ownership model of socialism should think less about cases like Mondragon and more about law firms, which are major economic players subject to laws that restrict the transfer of equity interests to non-workers

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · yesterday

“Their vision includes a large role for markets but by and large not for capitalists, remains committed to retaining and even expanding political liberalism, and acknowledges that even major social reforms are not a panacea for all problems.” www.liberalcurrents.com/democratic-s...

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · yesterday

“Their vision includes a large role for markets but by and large not for capitalists, remains committed to retaining and even expanding political liberalism, and acknowledges that even major social reforms are not a panacea for all problems.” www.liberalcurrents.com/democratic-s...

Democratic Socialism Gets Serious

"The Blueprint" demonstrates how the new generation of democratic socialists are providing real, practical proposals for economic transformation.

liberalcurrents.com

NH's "Play-by-Play" Guy@egall.bsky.social · 5d ago

"[Cohen] was so committed to this project that decades of criticizing Rawlsian liberalism eventually led him to come around to signing off on a lot of it. Liberals should try and hold ourselves to this standard [regarding Marxism]."

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 5d ago

"Cohen asks us how plausible it is to say that even though nine of the ten people will remain in the room, the prisoners are all still 'free' because any one of them has an equal chance of escaping." www.liberalcurrents.com/a-socialists...