Democratic radicalism: an ideological phoenix which has never grown up

Democratic radicalism can be seen as a partial or incomplete ideology, which emerged between 1789 and 1848 in France, Britain, Germany and other countries. After 1848 it was torn apart between liberalism and socialism, though elements survived or revived, for example in the leftwing-radicalism of Pannekoek and Rühle. Around 1968 the New Left seemed to bring democratic radicalism back to life, even if still tainted with (neomarxist) socialism. The green parties that sprang up around 1980 purged democratic radicalism from these socialist vestiges.

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