Reclaiming Democratic Classical Liberalism
https://www.ellerman.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Article-from-ReclaimingLiberalismEbook.pdf
“[L]iberalism expresses a skepticism about government[s] being able to “do good” for people. Instead an important role of government is to … maintain the conditions for people to be empowered and enabled to do good for themselves, for example, in establishing … the private property prerequisites for the functioning of a market economy as emphasized in … economic [thought] (e.g., Heyne et al. 2006, pp. 36–38).”
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The linked article doesn’t suggest moving backwards. The main class divide in usual liberalism is employer vs. employee. The article advocates that divide’s abolition based on an inalienable rights argument.
“The … result is that the inalienability argument applies as well to … today’s employment contract—as to the self-sale contract[.] … That requires re-constituting the corporation as a democratic organization” where workers control the firm and get the positive and negative result