🇬🇧 What Liberalism Requires: The Very Victorian Marriage of J. S. Mill and Harriet Hardy Taylor

"There was much unhappiness in this threesome. Doubt, anger, loneliness, and jealousy plagued each of them at one point or another. They pushed the limits of marriage as an institution in a moment when the difficulty of obtaining a divorce and coverture invited it."

Tusan, M.E. (2026) ‘What Liberalism Requires: The Very Victorian Marriage of J. S. Mill and Harriet Hardy Taylor’, Journal of British Studies, 65, p. e10. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2025.10186.

#OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Marriage #Liberalism #Victorian

Canadian Politics Debate Statement of the Day

— The Liberal Party of Canada stopped being a chiefly progressive party after Pierre Trudeau’s ministry —

Preface your reply with “FOR:” or “AGAINST:”

Please feel free to post replies/statements that argue for or against the statement without addressing me, or any other person in the replies.

Include one or two justifications for your argument.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #canada #liberalism #neoliberalism #conservatism #cpc #lpc #ndp #politicaldebate

It seems like to me what all the major reactionary illiberal movements of the 21st century share in common. Whether it's Dugin's 4th political theory or the neoreactionaries within the US. All share in common the idea that the entirety of the enlightenment is a failure and the only alternative is to return to what preceded it.

It seems like to me they have essentially taken the liberal end of History that all alternatives have been tried and failed one step further. By concluding that liberalism is also a failure and the only alternative is to return to what came before liberalism. To tradition.

Honestly I genuinely think the liberal end of History that was declared at the end of the Cold war was one of the worst messages that could have been delivered on the global scale. Since it was a fundamentally conservative message that killed off any radical imagination. Any imagination of achieving a post scarcity future beyond capitalism.

What we need to do is revive the future. To show the possibility that we can achieve a post scarcity civilization beyond capitalism. If liberalism represents the present and reactionary illiberalism represents the past we must represent the future.

#liberalism #illiberalism #postscarcity #futurism #reactionaries

Illinois Governor Pritzker's Demand Letter to Trump

https://sh.itjust.works/post/55743614

Global Shift: Liberalism's Core Ideas Reimagined in Political Discourse

Liberal political ideas are changing. People are talking about them in new ways to solve today's problems. See how.

#Liberalism, #Politics, #SocialChange, #Democracy, #NewIdeas

https://newsletter.tf/liberal-ideas-changing-politics/

The main ideas of liberalism are being looked at again. Some think the problem is how we use these ideas, not the ideas themselves. Others focus on how groups tried to change liberalism for politics and the economy.

#Liberalism, #Politics, #SocialChange, #Democracy, #NewIdeas

https://newsletter.tf/liberal-ideas-changing-politics/

Europeans understand "liberalism" better than do Americans. It's the one word in American English whose misuse vexes me more than any other political lexeme. Like the Europeans, I view the "liber" part as meaning "free to work and live one's life without government interference, except to defend those freedoms". All the public-good "liberals" would do well to start calling themselves what they are: progressives.

#liberalism #classicalLiberalism #modernLiberalism #progressivism #socialLiberalism

It wasn't that long ago that women didn't have these rights.

It was 1974 when women were first legally allowed to get a credit card in their own name. The Equal Credit Opportunity Act was passed in 1974 and it allowed women to get credit, buy a car, and buy a house without a male co-signer.

#EqualRights #credit #liberalism

The truth is in the 21st century there's only two major ideologies that exist. That being liberalism and reactionary illiberalism. The battle between the eternal present and the revolt against modernity. With Russia, the PRC and the neoreactionary faction of the Republican party within the US representing reactionary illiberalism. While the European Union and the Democratic party of the US representing liberalism.

That both online tankies and fascists are both slices of reactionary illiberalism. Since they are both funded by Russia and repeat the same Russian propaganda. The problem with this is that liberalism cannot be the only opposition to reactionary illiberalism. Because liberalism is not purely progressive and because of that it's cracks and flaws make it easy for reactionary illiberals to point to and turn people away from it.

What is needed to defeat the rising tide of reactionary illiberalism is a revolutionary progressivism. Something that is purely progressive. The problem with this is that currently there is no ideology that's purely progressive. The closest thing there is anarchism. Since anarchism's opposition to hierarchy makes it immune to social and systematic conservatism.

But it's one blind spot is on forms of oppression outside of hierarchy such as natural constraints. Which is where you get conservative forms of anarchism like primitivism. I think what we need is an ideology that goes beyond just opposing hierarchy but all constraints including natural ones. We need a radical left transhumanism that opposes all constraints including natural ones. To fight for the freedom of the individual to do and be anything. Including changing and modifying their form to their true selves.

#liberalism #illiberalism #reactionary #neoreaction #anarchism #fascism #tankies #Russia #morphologicalfreedom #Transhumanism

#CfA / #CfP: Utopias of #Work

Are you working on how #labor is related to the good life? On #Utopia and labor in #liberalism, #feminism or #socialism? How philosophers and political economists from Plato to Gandhi saw the rational or democratic organization of firms, #unions, and labor markets as means of advancing #justice, #freedom, and virtue at work?

Then submit your abstract for the 2026 "Utopias of Work" #conference in #Groningen. https://philevents.org/event/show/145617

#philosophy #politicaltheory