Saving Liberalism As a Higher-Order Value Means Going Beyond Capitalism

I've posted a comment on Helen Pluckrose's latest Substack article, "Liberalism as a Higher-Order Value," which I'm sharing below.

https://www.hpluckrose.com/p/liberalism-as-a-higher-order-value-5e8 

While most of what she writes is quite correct, she errs when she says that "capitalism ... is a central pillar of liberalism." This conflates two quite different things: liberalism, which is foundational to bourgeois society, and capitalism, a contradiction that has arisen within that society that effectively negates the liberal values of the bourgeois revolution. As Erin Hagood of the Platypus Affiliated Society put it:

"Socialism is not opposed to liberalism but seeks to take up the desiderata of liberalism in its crisis. The proletarian revolution is not made against the bourgeois revolution, but rather works through the unfinished tasks of that revolution in its hour of need. Marxism as the highest critic of socialism sought to clarify the world historical task of human freedom." ("The American Constitution and the Left," Platypus Review # 180)