#1024 Matthew McManus: The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism

Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The De Center. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Doctor Matthew McMenus. He's a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He's the author of several books, and today we're talking about his latest one, the political theory of liberal socialism. So Doctor McMinners, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to everyone. Yeah, thanks so much for inviting me. Um I was uh happy to hear that uh Some people in Portugal are interested in what I'm doing.

Yeah, sure. So let's start perhaps with some definitions here. Before we get into liberal socialism itself. Of course, I think this is a combination of liberalism and socialisms, so First of all, tell us what is liberalism, what is socialism, or perhaps about some of the main tenants that come from each of them that then come together in liberal socialism and then we can talk a little bit more more about liberal socialism itself.

Absolutely. So these are actually quite difficult questions, uh, and no small part because when we're talking about doctrines like liberalism or socialism, they've been around for hundreds of years. Many be different people have espoused them. Uh major philosophers um from very different traditions uh have aligned with them or criticized them. So I tend to agree with Dr. Alan Ryan. That it makes more sense to talk about liberalism's plural. And socialism's uh plural. uh than a kind of single unitary doctrine.

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