Thomas Barrio<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RadicalDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadicalDemocracy</span></a> and Liberalism: Escaping the Oligarchic Trap</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@sz_duras" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sz_duras</span></a></span> You argue that reinventing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> outside the liberal framework is utopian or contradictory. However, both history and theory show that democracy and liberalism are not the same. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Liberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberalism</span></a> , especially in its economic form, relies on the ideology of the self-regulating <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/market" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>market</span></a> aiming to limit collective action and privilege individual <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/liberty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liberty</span></a> in the economic sphere…</p><p><a href="https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/radical-democracy-and-liberalism-escaping-the-oligarchic-trap/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">homohortus31.wordpress.com/202</span><span class="invisible">5/05/14/radical-democracy-and-liberalism-escaping-the-oligarchic-trap/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Tattered" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Tattered</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/@christopher" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>christopher</span></a></span></p>