In South Germany, together with the struggle against the priesthood, the aristocracy and officialdom, there now came into existence for the first time since the 1860s a form of
radical liberalism combining national-liberal imperialist patriotism with economic policies based on a compromise between tariff policies (Schutzzolle) and a free market (Absatz) for industrial products.
Here the circle comes to a close: Judge Bork outlined how classic liberalism degenerated into
radical liberalism, and Barber argued that the egalitarian values of
radical liberalism and "McWorld" are the two sides of the new modern coin.
Kidd also looks at the politics of these groups, moving from Cobdenite
radical liberalism to conservatism, as well as the terrible social costs of the city's growth, popular movements and culture, and the importance of immigrant groups of Irish and Jews.
The decentralist tradition has its origins in the Painite radicalism of the late eighteenth century, and runs through Chartism,
radical Liberalism, anarchism and the Co-operative movement; it has always sat uneasily within the Labour Party, but today it represents its best chance of re-emerging as a popular democratic force.
However, she appears to have abandoned
radical liberalism, which included home rule, of early activists like Keir Hardie at Merthyr or Jim Griffiths at Llanelli.
He also accused his opponent of "
radical liberalism" and voting for tax increases to support her agenda
But this liberalism is invisible, as it is in the ALP's history as well: Labor's role as the residual heir of nineteenth-century
radical liberalism is ignored.
