Today my guest is Matthew McManus. Matt McManus is an incoming assistant professor of political theory at Spellman College. He is the author of The Political Right and Equality as well as The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism, which we are discussing today. McManus sees himself as engaging in a project of retrieval of a forgotten tradition of thought within the liberal tradition which advocates for socialist ends. This is a project with which I have some affinity as a liberal anarchist, but I have some big disagreements with how he sees the difference between liberal socialists and other more pro-market liberals as well as the institutional form he thinks liberal socialism should take: a form of statist social democracy. You will see us get into those disagreements at the end of the discussion.
Show Notes
Matthew McMannus, The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism
Jason Lee Byas, Radical Liberalism: The Soul of Libertarianism
Judith Shklar, The Liberalism of Fear
Charles Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries
David Dyzenhaus, Hobbes and the Law
Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice
Isaac Kramnick, The Rage of Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society
Helen McCabe, John Stuart Mill, Socialist
Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Hayek, Marx, and Utopia
Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
David Prychitko, Marxism and Workers' Self-Management: The Essential Tension
Karl Marx, The Civil War in France
Gary Chartier, Radicalizing Rawls
Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
FA Hayek, Individualism True and False
Gus Dizerga, Outgrowing Methodological Individualism
Tony Smith, Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism
Kevin Carson, Studies in Mutualist Political Economy
David Beito, From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State
Fabio Perocco, Racism In and For the Welfare State
Quinn Slobodian, Hayek's Bastards
Kjell Östberg, The Rise and Fall of Swedish Social Democracy
Pelle Dragsted, Nordic Socialism
John Rawls, Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy
Karl Marx, Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
Wendy Brown, Walled States: Waning Sovereignty
