A step by step review of Why Liberalism Failed

Also, know that I might be drinking while writing this.

To make the case for this framing early on, the author notes various trends that have become unbearably obvious in modern political movements: the belief that that we are out of control of our political system’s decisions, such as populist movements or movements to remove ourselves from global organizations. We also can’t fix these failures with a more refined “liberalism” since this situation is the ultimate end result of following Liberal ideology. Instead, we need something new, i.e. not Communism or Fascism which were tried as alternatives and failed.

Chapter one starts to give a more refined interpretation of the distinctions of terms with references to historical philosophical and political ideologies. First is the more traditional notion of liberty: the process of liberating yourself from your short comings. That process and philosophy has shown up across the world in Stoicism, Buddhism, Christianity, and many other moral frameworks that ask individuals to reflect on their shortcomings, misunderstandings, and excesses such that they can be a more refined being within society and nature. Paired with this is an underlying assumption that we as humans and deeply interconnected with nature.

The author slowly defines the world view defined by Classical Liberalism, or the Liberalism that now influences how most OECD countries operate, with two key revolutions that developed over the course of several hundred years:

What I find great about this breakdown is that the author references well know western philosophers in this development.

A good quote that summarizes chapter 1 is

The authors concern is that eventually, with Progressive Liberal tendencies to enlarge the state to ensure individuals can act equally in society, and Conservative Liberal tendencies to demand more radical freedoms, the state will grow larger and larger and we will each be driven to ask less of ourselves in exchange for asking more from each other and the state as the final arbiter in disagreements.

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