Such an important point: From the perspective of what @ThePlumLineGS calls egalitarian, cosmopolitan liberalism, the current situation is utterly unsatisfactory because too many people have never been enabled - politically, socially, economically - to lead a good liberal life. https://twitter.com/theplumlinegs/status/1388145476004888578

Very glad @ThePlumLineGS pushes back against the conservative caricature that misrepresents liberalism as ultimately animated by radicalized individualism that will necessarily atomize and destroy society. Because the liberal promise very much entails a vision of “Higher Goods.”

“Its project is to enable as many people as possible to acquire the means to fully develop powers to formulate and act on conceptions of the good life.”

Yes, exactly. https://twitter.com/theplumlinegs/status/1388145476004888578

“Whether you describe these means as ‘capabilities’ or ‘equality of opportunity,’ the insight is that full human flourishing requires material and social resources. Access to these are human goods.” And, one should add: political resources as well.

There are strands of critique on the left directed at liberal values. But the more interesting leftwing position agrees with liberal aims just like @ThePlumLineGS laid them out: egalitarian, cosmopolitan - and criticizes (neo-)liberalism for failing to realize that promise.