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By VerminLord
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This is about the small "r" kind of republican, not the G.O.P.

I have been looking into several political ideologies, and I classify myself as a republican. I have encountered two interesting philosophies that are a part of republicanism: liberal republicanism and classical republicanism.

On the surface, classical republicanism seems pretty good, but I must question where they would stand on capitalism and natural rights.

I tried looking up liberal republicans, but I kept getting results about the Liberal Republicans (A historical offshoot of the U.S. Republicans), or Republicans In Name Only.

Does anyone know anything about the philosophy of liberal republicanism?
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Manifest wrote:You're looking for a liberal faction of a traditionally conservative party? Why?


That's not what he was looking for, he was really quite specific about that. Republicanism is a philosophy of government that pre-dates the current US parochial usage (referring to a specific party). So is liberalism. For example, the US republican founders were quite suspicious of the activity of corporations in the late 18th century, and took very strong action at the state levels to limit their actions. The agrarian philosophy of Jefferson was at odds with capitalists of his day (although they would probably be better described as mercantilists). I infer VL is looking for a form of republicanism that more explicitly incorporates capitalism, than the republicanism of the founders. This might put him in right libertarian territory, but he's previously expressed skepticism of free immigration, so he's kind of out there on his own.

traditionally conservative


Republicans started out with a highly radical wing that included Thaddeus Stevens, Horace Greely, and US Grant. Even up to the time of Teddy Roosevelt and Willianm Howard Taft, Republicans were active in trust-busting and other reformist activities.
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The only thing that comes to mind when I think of left-republicanism would be the First French Republic. The revolution gave birth to a Republic that, theoretically, guaranteed the rights of all citizens, regardless of class, promoted meritocracy, egalitarianism, and popular sovereignty. Political factions surrounding the National Assembly also had platforms that wouldn't sound foreign to a modern Democratic Socialist:

Socially, the sans-culottes were anything but cohesive. The politics of any member of the movement, or French society for that matter, depended on personal vendettas, professional jealousies, literacy, and economic factors. Although their politics could differ, sans-culottes did hold one opinion in common: they were against the rich.

Sans-culottes believed in the ideology that all men were equal.
Ideally, each citizen would own one piece of property, such as a farm or shop, and no one would control large enterprises or estates.
The sans-culotte were not opposed to the concept of private property, but did despise the indulgent wealth by the bourgoisie and the elite aristocrates.
Food should be taken from big landowners and grain-merchants and to be given to small workshops.
They called for a radical Republic based on Direct Democracy.
They wanted a tax on the rich.



Source: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschw ... ottes.html

Even though the Republic ultimately failed to solidify into a meaningful government, the ideals that came out of it are the very basis of left-republicanism.
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By Manifest
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quetzalcoatl wrote:That's not what he was looking for, he was really quite specific about that. Republicanism is a philosophy of government that pre-dates the current US parochial usage (referring to a specific party). So is liberalism. For example, the US republican founders were quite suspicious of the activity of corporations in the late 18th century, and took very strong action at the state levels to limit their actions. The agrarian philosophy of Jefferson was at odds with capitalists of his day (although they would probably be better described as mercantilists). I infer VL is looking for a form of republicanism that more explicitly incorporates capitalism, than the republicanism of the founders. This might put him in right libertarian territory, but he's previously expressed skepticism of free immigration, so he's kind of out there on his own.

Republicans started out with a highly radical wing that included Thaddeus Stevens, Horace Greely, and US Grant. Even up to the time of Teddy Roosevelt and Willianm Howard Taft, Republicans were active in trust-busting and other reformist activities.


I completely ignored the entire first line of your post. My apologies.
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