Bischoff seems to believe that Christians should support
economic liberalism as a matter of course.
Not exact matches
What these elders have generally lacked is a recognition that one can not revise one of
liberalism's main commitments, today characterized
as «progressivism,» while ignoring the other, particularly
economic liberalism.
Some were seduced by the flight of
liberalism, hoping that
economic gains might result, such
as by creating riches to be later re-distributed, or by the idea of the indivisibility of freedoms, market freedom being the forerunner of other freedoms to come.
The realisation of the fluidity of social structures and the capacity of man to alter his political and
economic environment is a nineteenth century insight, which became the inheritance of
liberalism and neo-Protestantism
as well.14
Because they were aimed at «social,»
as well
as economic reform, American
liberalism took on the connotations of socialism.
Founded by a merger of the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party, the party can be simplistically labelled
as a mixture of
economic liberalism and social
liberalism, and it has become fashionable to insist that while the party could sit comfortably with such differences when in opposition, it is much trickier when in government, particularly
as a minority party.
Closely related to
economic liberalism, it developed in the early 19th century, building on ideas from the previous century
as a response to urbanization and to the Industrial Revolution in Europe and the United States.
His predecessor, Paddy Ashdown, has described him
as having moved the Liberal Democrats «to what you might call the right... The
liberalism of the old Liberal party was a comfortable social
liberalism, which didn't take into account
economic liberty
as well
as social liberty.
There is something in this: Mr Blair converted Labour to
economic liberalism just
as David Cameron converted the Tories to social
liberalism.
Babak Radboy's «Circle Time,» a faux kids» show that engages toddlers in a dialogue about the ills of capitalism, left a bad taste in my mouth,
as did Chantal Mouffe's «General Intellects with McKenzie Wark,» in which an
economic theorist, beheaded via special - effects technology, lectures on
liberalism and democracy in an empty meeting room.