Against the background of partial definitions of "capitalism," "socialism," and "liberal democracy," the political-theoretical effort associated with the work of C.B. Macpherson to retrieve liberal democracy for socialism is defended. Considerations are advanced to mitigate liberal-democratic mistrust of anti-democratic potentials of socialist planning; retrieval is characterized (as the supersession of key liberal- democratic values); and ways that socialists might appropriate liberal- democratic pluralism are sketched as an example.
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