Syndicalist liberalism: the normative economics of Herbert Croly

• Autores: Claudio Katz
• Localización: History of political thought, ISSN 0143-781X, Vol. 22, Nº 4, 2001, págs. 669-702
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay reevaluates the work of Herbert Croly, a central figure in American progressivism. Croly contests the thesis that the liberal tradition in the United States is inhospitable to anticapitalist alternatives, drawing from the American past a history of resistance to capitalist wage relations that is fundamentally liberal. This historical reconstruction guides his departure from progressivism. Croly reclaims an idea Progressives allowed to lapse -- that working for wages is a lesser form of liberty. Increasingly sceptical of social welfare legislation to remedy social ills, he argues that America's liberal promise can be redeemed only by syndicalist reforms involving workplace democracy.