What is Kymlicka's stand on the relationship between liberal egalitarianism and the welfare state?

Kymlicka argues that as the welfare state is concerned with equality through a correction of existing market inequalities and in its present form cannot allow individuals to start life from an equal footing, liberal equality cannot deliver proper ongoing income redistribution without a once off radical reordering of society. In other words liberty equality in society cannot be generated through the mechanism of the welfare state. This issue of ex post versus ex ante redistribution is defined by Kymlicka as the defining problem for the liberal equalitarian thinker (as well as for the various centre left governments in power today) and a problem which Kymlicka claims is emphasized by the lose of confidence by these thinkers in the power of the state to achieve a meaningful redistribution.  He argues that modern global economy interactions make it difficult for countries to justify the tax rates needed for ex post redistribution and that an evaluation of the last 50 years of the welfare state has (though successful in some areas) not achieved all that we would have hoped.  

Concurrent with this thinking we must also bear in mind the successful attacks that the new right has made on the welfare state. These attacks have focused on their characterisation of it as a mechinism that reduces individual responsibility and unfairly coerces individuals through higher taxation. Politically we have seen this led to the dismantling of various areas of the welfare state while philosophically the liberal equalitarian has been also pushed the into a defensive position. This position, Kymlicka argues, has not allowed a more radical position to be put forward in relation to ex anta endowments. We instead have the situation in which the debate is about the good of the welfare state against the bad of unrestricted property rights rather than the good of a just society build on ex ante endowments against the bad of a society in which no attempt is made to deal with the unequal position of individuals.

In conclusion then, Kymlicka’s position of our inability of to achieve equality of opportunity through the welfare state seems well thought through, and naturally leads us to the thesis that if we cannot achieve that equality through our present definition of the welfare state that definition needs to be reworked in much more radical way if the goal of equality of opportunity is still worth while. Where I believe problems lie is not within this argument per sea, but where this argument brings the liberal equalitarian (and in that I believe the problem lies with the equalitarian). If we take it that the liberal equalitarian differs substantially from the Marxist only in the idea of collective ownership (put forward by Kymlicka when discussing the idea of exploitation) it seems to me that any radical reworking of society to allow full equality of opportunity will have no option but to look at collective ownership of a very large part of societies wealth.  Are we then left in the situation in which the liberal is left tinkering at the edges of Marxism rather than forging a new path regardless of a new type of social contract engineered through the veil of ignorance?