#Liberalism

Alexander Reid Ross

areidross

Re: recent debates about the Boogs, I think that we need to separate rhetoric from reality. They're a far-right movement that uses ostensibly left-wing rhetoric in much the same fashion

Jeff Sharlet

JeffSharlet

Thinking about Peter Turchin's argument in @TheAtlantic that the memory of collective action is what makes democracy possible. If we grant this premise, what does it say for our moment,

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

It’s really the folks in their 20s and 30s, the generation between X and Z, we should spare a thought for: the Millennials.Boy, do they keep getting shafted https://trib.al/QaFKxfu It

Nightcrawler

SchizoCavalier

The only reason that Lyotard, arguably the founder of post-modernism, wasn’t a neoreactionary was because he was a neopagan.NRx: Lyotard criticized the Marx, the Enlightenment, and French Revolution, saw the

David Rich

david_rich9

Important thread incoming. 1/_. “Joe Biden has shown this week that some of his ambitions are more radical. On immigration, he is way to Obama’s left, proposing a mass amnesty of millions

rip van winkle

long_napper

I haven't really discussed my own personal politics on here too much because I don't feel at home with any political ideology and I don't see myself probably ever feeling

tantum

QuasLacrimas

liberal theocracy is a deathcult b/c mass culture + meritocratic exemptions from anarchotyranny interact to hijack all impulses to family formation mass culture: think of this as complement to intentional

Matthew Travis Barber

Matthew__Barber

1) A Harris/Biden ticket represents everything wrong with the Democratic party today: on the part of Biden, the absence of real progressive reforms (corporate regulation, healthcare for all, dismantling of

Alex Nedelcu

alexelcu

1/ Socialism makes these mistakes:1. For some people to win, other people have to lose, economy is a zero-sum game, hence the "class struggle"; see Marx's labor theory of value;2.

SonaliRanade

sonaliranade

Food4Thought:The whole of liberal politics is based on the premise that people want to be free, equal & peaceful. For liberal elites this is the self-evident truth. Nothing more needs

Lars Maischak

LMaischak

Fascism is qualitatively different from the corporate, neoliberal semi-democracy we currently have in the U.S..It is a whole lot worse.Yes, liberalism and fascism are both political systems available to administer

Omair Ahmad

OmairTAhmad

1. Towards the last year there were two essays on those losing hope in India's journey, both worth reading in full.This one by @andymukherjee70: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-opinion-india-and-modi-are-losing-china-battle/And

Arram Sabeti

arram

Lack of housing in liberal coastal cities is a major reason America isn't more liberal.Research shows:1. People who live in these cities become more liberal2. They're the hardest places to

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

2/https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1277467083542913025 3/A thread on the deconstruction of gender:https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1277730769755009024 4/A thread on Woke Capitalism:https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status

Nightcrawler

SchizoCavalier

Ernst Junger thread:After Storm of Steel was published in 1920, Junger's writings would take an extremely different turn from his initial praise of war as a transcendental experience and hope

Talha ahmad

talhaahmad967

Benazir Bhutto Castle of Corruption It's not surprising to see how smartly our Desi intellectuals are distorting history, presenting Benazir as a champion of Human rights & Democracy. I won't

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