Historical, political, and ideological context in which the current of socialist liberal thought emerges

Abstract

The objective of this research was to describe the historical, political and ideological context in which the current of liberal socialist thought emerged, formulated by Norberto Bobbio, among others. In this sense, the historical context in which the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics arose in the heat of the so-called October Revolution of 1917 is exposed, as a condition of possibility to critically understand the influence of the socialist promise in the minds of critical intellectuals. of the time, won to build a more just and equitable society for the working masses. In the methodological way, documentary observation and the ideational approach were used. The interpretation of the sources collected allows us to conclude that, in the reading of ideological processes, passionate positions prevail over reason, hence for communist intellectuals the USSR meant a better world, at least for the workers and the dispossessed classes and, for liberals, liberal democracy and its market economies are the only possible alternative to promote the progress of nations. In any case, the contribution of Bobbio's work is due to its intrinsic capacity to overcome ideological polarization.