Because liberalism has failed us, delivering vast inequality and climate catastrophe.
More liberalism is not the answer, it's fuel on the flames of fascism. What we need is a political economy that distributes the resources, costs and benefits of being human fairly in our society. Our time is short before the world is burned in the name of profits
Just as liberal democratic capitalism evolved over centuries to achieve success, socialism is also in its early stages of development. There's still experimentation, and there will inevitably be some mistakes along the way. That's no reason to give up on socialism. #socialism#capitalism#liberalism#democracy
The myopia of American #liberalism is astounding. "Yes, it's bad that Joe Biden is supporting a #genocide. But just think! If Donald Trump is elected, we might see a genocide here! You know, to #people who matter!"
Now open access: Townsend, K. G. (2023). Defending an inclusive right to genital and bodily integrity for children. International Journal of Impotence Research, 35(1), 27-30. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41443-021-00503-x
The rise of fascism during the interwar period was notably documented by Karl Polanyi in his book The Great Transformation (1944).
"[T]he moment would come when both the economic and the political systems were threatened by complete paralysis. Fear would grip the people, and leadership would be thrust upon those who offered an easy way out at whatever ultimate price. The time was ripe for the fascist solution."
What does the expression "I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" mean to you? Do you still hear people say this? Please share your experiences with this position.
Edit: This is not a trap. There are no wrong answers. I used to hear this sentiment all the time. My own dad thinks this way. Has the meaning changed?
Are there even any other (western) company structures aside from cooperatives that promote / consist of structures of respect and equal / fair pay, instead of letting autocracy and greed reign supreme? 🧐
"#Russia has for years positioned itself as a bastion of "traditional" values in contrast with #Western#liberalism as its relations with the West have deteriorated over its 2014 annexation of Crimea and 2022 full-scale invasion of #Ukraine."
There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy
actually exists; by the political analogue of #GreshamsLaw, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation.
There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it
does not yet exist. What would it be?”
Jake Tapper pushing the deficit deal narrative really hard, interviewing WH budget spokesman Bharat Ramamurti. Tapper sternly saying you don't have the numbers, what's your plan b, etc, always circling back to what cuts will be made.
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: Al Shifa, Resistance, and Fanonian Psychoanalysis with Dr. Lara Sheehi
"In this episode we will talk about the war crimes the zionists have committed in Al Shifa, how this fits into the landscape of this genocide materially and psychologically. We will also revisit October 7th and discuss how psychological warfare has made it challenging to discuss what Al Aqsa Flood represented and enacted. In doing so we will seek to resist the framing of this day that places limits on our speech and actions in solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance. We will also incorporate some discussion of Fanon and his analysis of the Algerian revolution and the anticolonial process."
"Liberals do not see themselves as ‘political’ at all. They believe they are simply trying to implement ‘sensible’ policies that align with evidence and ‘common sense,’ in contrast to their opponents who seek to govern based on nothing more than ‘ideology.’
But liberalism is, of course, an ideology."
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: Al Shifa, Resistance, and Fanonian Psychoanalysis with Dr. Lara Sheehi
"In this episode we will talk about the war crimes the zionists have committed in Al Shifa, how this fits into the landscape of this genocide materially and psychologically. We will also revisit October 7th and discuss how psychological warfare has made it challenging to discuss what Al Aqsa Flood represented and enacted. In doing so we will seek to resist the framing of this day that places limits on our speech and actions in solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance. We will also incorporate some discussion of Fanon and his analysis of the Algerian revolution and the anticolonial process."
Jonathan Chait is real mad that leftists aren't taking liberal shit anymore. I got the link from archive.is to avoid giving his BS any extra clicks. It's way longer than it needs to be. This paragraph caught my attention though because it's at least an attempt at clarifying what liberals see as leftism and why they're wrong (which is why they should shut the fuck up, because they have been proven so very fucking wrong, so often, and for so long):
I don’t want to bore you...
lol
by attempting the umpteenth definition of liberalism,
Funny how liberals hate defining liberalism
so I will lay out the distinction as briefly as possible. On economic questions, leftists have an overwhelming bias for state action over markets, while liberals are more selective.
This is incorrect. Leftists differ radically on how much state action over markets is needed. What unites leftists is the belief that we need democracy in economic realms as well as political ones. (I personally don't accept fully authoritarian MLs as leftists, one can debate that, but that's where I stand.) Liberals think it's just fine for us to have democratic politics but for most people to work for institutions that are run as dictatorships.
...On politics, liberals take very seriously notions of individual rights and universally applicable principles, while leftists tend to criticize political liberalism as a recipe for maintaining inequalities of power between the privileged and the oppressed.
Sort of true, but Chait tellingly leaves out the substance of the leftist critique, the reason why they think that political liberalism is a recipe for maintaining inequality, to wit: the lack of democracy in most people's workplaces. If economic power is concentrated while political power is distributed, then inevitably political power will become concentrated as well. Because money is power.
Anyway, Chait hates "Solidarity" the book and he also hates solidarity the concept. Of course he gets paid to represent left-of-center thought at major USA publications. Feel free to discuss your disgust for this type of guy further in replies.
Don't fool yourself: It's mostly just about family connections and pure randomness.
#Capitalism#Liberalism#Philosophy#MoralPhilosophy#Inequality#Poverty: "Rawls thinks agents designing a society from behind the veil of ignorance might nevertheless allow some inequality, in exchange for greater economic efficiency. But in navigating such tradeoffs they’d be guided by the principle that inequalities need to earn their keep by (a) making the better-off positions available to every qualified applicant under conditions of meaningful equality of opportunity and (b) only allowing inequalities, even inequalities that satisfy condition (a), when whoever is worst off would still be better off than they would be under a more equal alternative.
The resulting loophole for acceptable inequalities is much narrower than many readers of Rawls over the decades have realized. Rawls himself, who certainly wasn’t a radical firebrand by personal inclination, had reluctantly come to realize by the end of his life that even a form of capitalism modified by a generous welfare state couldn’t meet his demanding standard.
Meanwhile, one of Rawls’s most important critics, the Marxist philosopher G. A. Cohen, argued that even this loophole was too large for it to be appropriate to call any arrangement that passed Rawls’s test “justice.” Cohen acknowledged that economic efficiency matters, for much the same reason Rawls thought it did — the standard of living of even the lower classes — but he thought we should keep a more demanding notion of egalitarian justice as our north star."
#InternationalLaw#Humanism#Liberalism: "It is less a question of Western or Eastern, but rather liberal humanism as such that has died. When hearts and minds quietly change below the surface of an otherwise resilient and powerful liberal order, then imaginations and preparations toward a viable alternative have inevitably begun, even if only unconsciously.
In many ways, this moment echoes the lamentations of anti-colonial intellectuals, activists, and statesmen around the Global North’s betrayal of liberal humanism with respect to national self-determination in the twentieth century. If the horrifying images from the Vietnam War and subsequent anti-war movements constituted a watershed moment across the world, then the ongoing carnage across Palestine and global protests against it may constitute yet another such moment. It could have transformative implications for the global majority’s perception of the Global North’s values and principles, and build momentum for a new, multipolar, and anarchic world that nobody is prepared for.
At stake now is not only Ukraine’s and Palestine’s national survival, but the survival of international law and anything that is left of basic human decency. The violence and brutality of the last two years must prompt all of us — whether in the Global South or North, East or West — to enter into an honest and thorough introspection about the kind of world that we want to live in. What kind of geopolitics, notions of sovereignty, human rights, and legality are needed to overcome today’s challenges? Otherwise, we will slip ever closer towards the abyss of a more violent, nihilistic, and soulless world, in which the weak are crushed in the interests of the powerful few."
The Supreme Court is taking a wrecking ball to the wall between church and state (www.vox.com)
The Court’s Republican majority has ground the Constitution’s establishment clause down to a nub.
Armenia to exercise with US troops next week in sign of frustration with Russia (www.reuters.com)
The Armenian Defence Ministry said the purpose of the exercise was to prepare its forces to take part in international peacekeeping missions.
Global Elections - 2024
DeSantis' redistricting map in Florida is unconstitutional and must be redrawn, judge says (apnews.com)
A judge says that a Florida redistricting plan pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis violates the state constitution.