What is moral socialism ? " If we seek an answer to those who hesitate and ask us whether they should be socialists or not " wrote the Austro-Marxist Otto Bauer over a century ago, " we still need Kant's ethics ".
In this opening lecture, Lea Ypi reflects on the failures of state socialism and capitalism in the 20th century, and proposes a new way forward. Her analysis aims to revive the Enlightenment critique of technocratic reason, and is based on a universal conception of freedom as moral agency.
