La proposta socialista di Antero de Quental e il Programa para os Trabalhadores da Geração Nova

Antero de Quental makes his own the Proudhonian principle of justice, which in its turn presupposes the evangelical ideal of brotherhood. He considers the socialism as a kind of Christianism of the modern world, that is, as an ideological movement, which resumes and remodels what is best the spiritual tradition had to offer: the defense of equality and justice at the level of "humanity". Antero's proposal overcomes the narrow limits of the strictly economic sphere and blurs the connotations of a mere proposal for a political alternative to assume moral and ethical boundaries instead inspirers of a more just and equitable social order.