Liberalism is the fundamental form of modern ideology because of the apparently simplicity of its criterion.

Liberalism is not anarchism because liberalism is concerned with order.

Liberalism is often treated as if it is a ‘complex of doctrines’ which cannot be simplified.

Liberalism cannot take some sort of order for granted, and so has to insist on the necessity of an order external to the self but without which the self cannot exist.

Liberalism has had most success in the form of critique.