Liberal thinkers embraced working-class welfare to compete with left and right appeals.

Evidence

In the wake of the war, ‘civilisation’ was retooled in a social-democratic direction, and even liberals increasingly recognised that competing with the temptations on the left and the right required them to recognise the social and economic needs of the working classes. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 143

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the reader’s frame that rights discourse is strategically deployed against rival ideologies — relevant to critiques of human rights as hegemonic.