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What is liberalism (western liberalism tradition) book review?

Liberalism is a collection of ideology, philosophy and a series of schools of thought with freedom as the main political value.

It is characterized by pursuing development, believing that human nature is good and supporting individual autonomy. In addition, it also advocates relaxing and exempting the control of autocratic regimes over individuals. Broadly speaking, liberalism pursues a society that protects individual freedom of thought, restricts the use of government power by law, guarantees the concept of free trade, supports the market economy of private enterprises and protects the rights of every citizen. In modern society, liberals support a kind of liberal democracy based on * * * harmony or constitutional monarchy, and have an open and fair electoral system, so that all citizens have equal rights to participate in politics.