Is Liberalism a Part of a Capitalist Economy?

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Liberalism does imply, under most realistic circumstances, some defent of private property. If you have no employment option outside of the state, then criticising the government is always going to be very difficult. The sort or strong forms of liberalism that do posite sort of absolutest private operty and the vision of the ultimate destination of goods that i have as a christian,. there are conflicts there. Sure, in practice, there are tolerable degrees of compatibility? Ye, i think so. As in the sort of mixed market socialist set up that my husband tends to think about his ideal... You have elements of he economy that are democratically controlled, but also have private property,

Elizabeth Bruenig is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a Catholic socialist who writes on topics as varied as capital punishment and mothering two children while in her twenties. Her work is uniquely marked by her ruby-red Texas upbringing, the elite professional world she now inhabits, and her deep sense of morality, which draws from both Christian theology and left-wing politics.

In a wide-ranging conversation, Elizabeth Bruenig and Yascha Mounk debate the importance of dialogue across moral perspectives, whether wokeness bears any resemblance to theology, and how religious conviction can give rise to an authentically liberal defense of free speech.

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