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# Liberalism: The road from serfdom. A conversation with Domenico Losurdo
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/liberalism-road-from-serfdom-conversation-with-domini/
- Published: 2011-05-15T11:05:30.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-22T10:49:49.000Z
- Description: Liberalism does not evolve and progress according to some internal process, but because of the historical challenges it has faced. Slavery, colonialism, anti-semitism have all been a part of this. How do religious fundamentalism, environment and immigration challenge Liberalism today? A conversati
- Author: Tony Curzon Price
- Tags: Politics & activism, #Migrated, democracy & power, Democracy and government, ideas, Equality, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 16:12, #appended-excerpt

Liberalism does not evolve and progress according to some internal process, but because of the historical challenges it has faced. Slavery, colonialism, anti-semitism have all been a part of this. How do religious fundamentalism, environment and immigration challenge Liberalism today? A conversation based around Domenico Losurdo's book, Liberalism, A counter history (Verso)

  
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Liberalism does not evolve and progress according to some internal process, but because of the historical challenges it has faced. Slavery, colonialism, anti-semitism have all been a part of this. How do religious fundamentalism, environment and immigration challenge Liberalism today? A conversation based around Domenico Losurdo's book, [Liberalism, A counter history (Verso)](http://www.versobooks.com/books/960-liberalism?ref=opendemocracy.net)