“Liberalism, which Luxemburg called by its more appropriate name—“opportunism”—is an integral component of capitalism. When the citizens grow restive, it will soften and decry capitalism’s excesses. But capitalism, Luxemburg argued, is an enemy that can never be appeased. Liberal reforms are used to stymie resistance and then later, when things grow quiet, are revoked on the inevitable road to capitalist slavery. The last century of labor struggles in the United States provides a case study for proof of Luxemburg’s observation.The political, cultural and judicial system in a capitalist state is centered around the protection of property rights. And, as Adam Smith pointed out, when civil government “is instituted for the security of property, [it] is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.” The capitalist system is gamed from the start. And this makes Luxemburg extremely relevant as corporate capital, now freed from all constraints, reconfigures our global economy, including the United States’, into a ruthless form of neofeudalism.”

The Public Interest, Spring 1973 https://books.google.com/books?id=S2nUuTagIw8C&amp;pg=PA101&amp;dq=The+enemy+of+liberal+capitalism+today+is+not+so+much+socialism+as+nihilism.&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjjmvTH3aDXAhWMNiYKHfQ_DNwQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&amp;q=The%20enemy%20of%20liberal%20capitalism%20today%20is%20not%20so%20much%20socialism%20as%20nihilism.&amp;f=false <br class="br">1970s

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Two, Three Ideologies Of Political Economy, p. 37

Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 9, p. 197

Source: &quot;Evolutionary Socialism&quot; (1899) https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bernstein/works/1899/evsoc/index.htm, Chapter III, The Tasks and Possibilities of Social Democracy

In that work, he proposed many policies that are harmonious with free markets and are receiving serious attention in the United States and other countries. This list includes school choice, the flat-rate income tax, rules for monetary stability, privatized social security, and the elimination of affirmative-action programs.
Getting It Right (1997); Introduction

Dorothy Thompson’s Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
Source: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
p. 25

Interview with Parker in Randall E. Parker(ed.), Reflection on the Great Depression (2002)

Henry J. Heinz, cited in: John Woolf Jordan (1915). Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania. p. 38

Source: Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), Chapter Four, "The Export of Capital"