Paul Crider: What described is beyond liberalism? And what would you call Douglass instead? He favored constitutional, representative government with universal suffrage, had a generally pro-liberty disposition, and a progressive, melioristic worldview. "It Moves" is a good speech to read for his liberal ideas.

What would liberalism look like if we reimagined it from these foundations? Suspicion of inequality and concentrated power, egalitarianism, labor orientation, feminism, social justice, thick conceptions of flourishing, non-ideality, political practice-orientation. These ideas are all there.

Oh god this thought came to me this morning and now I can't escape it

I don't know if you could credibly call Frederick Douglass a liberal. He certainly wasn't by the metrics of his own time.

Oh, I see what you're saying now, whoops. But still, I think what you're describing there is something beyond the bound of liberalism.

What described is beyond liberalism? And what would you call Douglass instead? He favored constitutional, representative government with universal suffrage, had a generally pro-liberty disposition, and a progressive, melioristic worldview. "It Moves" is a good speech to read for his liberal ideas.

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