A quote from Hal Draper (a socialist) on Liberalism
But the typical liberal, who cannot break with the ’system, has to settle for something else: protesting the best of intentions (sincerely) while being dragged along by the system he supports, or busying himself with filing off the sharp corners or rough edges on the towing chain which drags him; and meanwhile congratulating himself on doing an indispensable smoothing job which the callous powers-that-be are too heartless to attend to.
I sincerely start to believe that Hal Draper was one of the best socialist thinkers of the last century. Read the whole thing, quite enlightening.